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'•MHH1 Intently watching the Homecoming football game in which the Fighting Illini were pitted against Ohio State, crowds expectantly await this outcome. Alums from many miles came to enjoy their alma mater's fiftieth annual Homecoming celebration. the Illini and Alumni Trying to elude his pursuers and to gain yardage, Ethan Blaek- aby, junior fullback on the Illini squad, runs down the field. Since Illinois won last year's game, Jack Eby from Ohio State turns over the Illibuck to Phil Siegert. 17
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Setting out for the stadium, this crowd leaves one of the six Homecoming Special trains from the Illinois Central Railroad. Carmen Wolynczuke, campus Tumor salesman, ped- dles Homecoming papers just prior to the pep rally. U Famous Firsts ...The Fiftieth Homecoming (or Enthusiastically clutching and waving the Ohio State blanket, this crowd cheers their team at the Homecoming football game. Famous Firsts, the appropriate theme of the '60 Homecoming celebration, commemo- rated the 50th anniversary of the U. of I. Homecoming held here on campus. Alums returned to observe the same Illini ingenuity which inspired the development of homecom- ings. The 1960 Stunt Show, a traditional home- coming event for eighteen years, presented twelve semi-finalist acts on Friday night. The table of Firsts in the front of the pro- gram included 1960, First contemporary Stunt Show program. Also more Firsts, some in a contemporary mode, were displayed in house decorations of the organized houses on campus. Alums joined in a pep rally Friday night on the Illini Union Terrace, where Miss Judy Stephenson was named Homecoming Queen. The opening kick-off, reunions after the game, open houses, and creating memories . . . thus, the 50th Homecoming is complete. 16
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The TEKES erect part of their display which symbolized the driving in of the spike in the meeting of East and West. With two small engines and a sixty-five foot Indian, the Sigma Pis carry out the First Continental Railway theme. Homecoming Presents Famous Firsts Judy Stephenson is crowned Homecoming Queen at the pep rally by an honored Bill Brown, Illinois' football captain. Up on the scaffold, Theta Xi members work on their home- coming decorations, Baby Illini Cuts First Big Ten Tooth. 18
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