Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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gi, .,,v-.--c,,.--- ,- , x , S Boi ler mak ers' Rah! Rah' Rah! The spectators pull up their canvas as a webfoot splashes toward the finish line DVANCING MONTHS BROUGHT A VARIETY OF SPORTS The Old Oaken Bucket victory celebrations were beginning to fade, and we turned our attention indoors to basketball. The First home games gave us a chance to watch a fast, spirited, hard- fighting team race to three impressive wins in a row. The pros- pects for the approaching Big Ten season looked bright to us, especially after an opening, record-tying victory at YVisconsin. But then, inexperience and some hard luck caught up With the Boilermakers, and we were never again a contender for confer- ence leadership. Hoosier hysteria broke loose in the Fieldhouse as we watched the cagers win and lose many close ones. The fact that the starters on our team this year were predominately under- classmen gave us reason to hope for a better season next year.

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PORTS. especially football, contributed much to our year at Purdue. Even though we lost the opener, we were all back the next weekend to watch the Senior Day game against Iowa. A cold, driving rain made the contest more like a swimming meet than a football game, but no one left until the final gun sounded. Purdue staged a stirring last minute rally by scoring two touchdowns in the last four minutes of play to beat Iowa. 34-30. On Homecoming week- end our spirits were high. and if hours of elaborate planning and days of hard work could have won the game, we would have come out on top. IVe followed the team. not only at home but also away, making trips all over the country to lend our support to a team that just wouldn't quit. This kind of spirit paid off: up until the last game of the season we had a chance to win the conference title. YVe had won four consecutive games and were trying for number five against our old rival, Indiana. For a week the hotly of Miss Indiana lay in state in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union so that we could pay our respects. Then Friday night she was cremated at the traditional ceremony. The next day we made a mass migra- tion southward and spent the afternoon both cheering the Gold and Black. and listening for the score of the Northwestern-Illinois game. Purdue won, 21-13, but so did Illinois, destroying our chance to finish first in the conference. Still the celebrations that night on the Indiana campus were something to remember. This year we had finished second in the conference. and in '53 we were deter- mined to be first. FOOTBALL . . . EXCITING FALL SATURDAYS Again, Miss Indiana suffered at the hands of rowdy college youths.

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