Southeast Missouri State University - Sagamore Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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Homecoming crowd looks approvingly on as Cape State Indians wage war against the Murray State Mares yet the smiles were short-livedg Murray State's trojan horse beguilecl Cape State, leading the ln cllans down to defeat, 22-7. Surrounding High School bands mass in formation to form the Cape State's Marching Band Symbol: The Golden Eagle.

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Sip-Epi-Alpha Chi prematurely bury the Murray Mules g but like an overgrown Phoenix arising from its own ashes the mule galloped forth to do mortal battle with the Indians. I love a paradeln Deep down within young and old lurks an instinctive love for that briskly festive spirit that a parade awakens. Perhaps it's the distant thump of drums, or the flash of sunlight on trumpets and cymbals, the kaleidoscope of bright costumes and pretty girls, and the stately, lumbering floats, or just the brisk air and the ex- citement of the crowds. True to its purpose, this yearis Homecoming parade added to the general spirit of enthusi- asm and festivity. Saturday morning dawned clear, cool, and bright-pen feet parade weather. Crowds of students, visitors, and local citizens pulled on their coats and hurried to line sidewalks, cluster on lawns, and hang from windows. And then it came: pretty Indian maidens, Model-T's, floats, clowns, bands, queens-even the Flying Indians moving high above the scene trailed a banner to wish the team luck. Yes, everyone loves a parade, and perhaps that is why nothing seems to awaken Homecoming spirit quite like that pageant of movement and color and sound. A Murray Mule lies collapsed where the Leming Hall girls left him. If only it had been that easy! 23

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MOMENTS OF SUSPENSE: THE HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME Perhaps one of the best places for the display of Color and excitement so often associated with College life is the football stadium. When the waited for moment arrived, crowds poured into the stadium, equipped with blankets, banners, and refreshments. After the crowd settled down in their places, after the warm-ups, came the s-s-s-boomln from the crowd' the ball tumbled into the air to set a tense 3 contest of strategy and power into motion. By half-time, everyone excitedly discussed chances for victory, but as the game got off to another brisk start after the half, Capes chances sunk lower and lower. Finally the Indians had to admit defeat. Yet, the day was a good oneg spirits were still undampenedg and there would always be another year. The fighting indians and their vocal spirit, the Cheerleaders, wage battle against the Murray Mules. -we 'li.fQF' if. if 5313.5