University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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For two and a half hours we were alternately th rilled, frightened, and amused, but never bored Rebels ' reserve strength watched a tense moment in the game. The situation looked grim, but we wcn. the game began, only the stadium contained life. After elaborate pre-game team activities, bands marched, the loudspeaker blared, and we stood for the national anthem and the invocation. Then play began, and for two and a half hours, broken only by the precisions and color of the band at halftime, we were alternately thrilled, frightened, and amused but never bored. And we cheered cheered as the Rebels won all at the beginning of the season, cheered even in defeat at Memphis, traveled to Memphis again and cheered even more as Ole Miss defeated favored Tennessee to gain a high national ranking, cheered at Starkville even in dis- appointment and cheered loudest and longest in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 1958 as the Rebels humbled Texas to become—Sugar Bowl Champions, 1958.

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Majorettes brought color, precision, and glamor to the half-t:me activities. The cheerleaders found nothing to cheer about at this crucial point. Football meant color, excitement, noise, parties, and spirit(s). On game days, the campus was either stretched many times beyond its normal population, filled with noise and excitement, or deserted, empty and silent, as we followed the team out of town. Home games brought a multitude of brightly colored automobiles parked in every empty space in the grove, on the lawns of buildings, in all parking lots reaching to the highway on one side and Oxford on the other. Each car had carried several fans in addition to a conglomeration of food, blankets, field glasses, thermos bottles, and little bottles in sacks. Before the game, many ate their lunches under the trees; others crowded into the cafeteria and the restaurants of Oxford. But as

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Mighty fine hunting at Hemingway this season This bonfire built at Ole Miss by forced labor, Dizzy Dean was there; the Governor was there; the legislature was there; Ole Miss Rebels and LSU Tigers packed Hemingway Stadium to the brim as our Rebels edged the Tigers in the Ole Miss annual Homecoming game. At halftime Pat Cousins, surrounded by eight ladies-in-waiting, and her maid of honor, Jan Priester, was crowned queen. That night she reigned at the Homecoming Dance, which was the grand finale to a weekend of festivities. The night before was the night of the bonfire and pep rally, led by Ole Miss cheerleaders. Saturday morning judges voted Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Delta as the best fret and sorority decorations and Ricks as the best dorm. Well, maybe a little ghost of one What a lot of work just to get blown over Old Diz was there, too