University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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FOOTBALL SEASON Although the days in which Notre Dame ' s reputation rested solely on football are long past, the football weekend remains an integral part of the total atmosphere of the university. For those five crazy weekends South Bend can no longer be a sleepy mid-western community and Notre Dame can no longer retain its academic atmosphere. The attention of the sports world and Notre Dame people everywhere is focused here, and the Notre Dame South Bend community reacts by putting on a fine show. South Bend becomes a merchant ' s dream and Notre Dame becomes a students paradise. It starts on Friday night with the pep rally in a seemingly useless old building with a dirt floor. Here, a football team, a band, and several thousand bodies, all united in spirit scream, squeeze, and shove, while reliving the tradition of Rockne, the Gipper, fans, and many generations of students. No one has merely attended a field house rally, but many have experienced one. After the rally, activities diversify. Students spread out to the State, Granada, Avon, Frankie ' s, Louie ' s, Rocco ' s, innumera- ble parties, or rooms, depending on their individual tastes. Few sleep. Parents and alumni retire to the shelter of their motel rooms to prepare for the continuing performance on the coming day. Saturday opens at seven. Do you remember how dark it was when you got up for that first eleven o ' clock class that was rescheduled for seven? That was probably the first and the last that you ' ll remember. Miraculously, the thousands of rolls of toilet paper that decorated the campus after the rally have dis- appeared. In their place are five thousand vendors, many of them students, selling everything under the sun. Hawkers stalk customers at every corner selling everything from the wine- basted hotdogs to official game programs. If those amateur salesmen don ' t have what you want, the pros at the bookstore will, and it will be even more official. Game tickets are either being sold at outrageously high prices or can ' t be given away. Bands of all varieties abound rock, acid, folk all attracting their own particular followings and curious visitors while each strive to blast the others off the quad. Students guide lost par- ents and alumni try to guide non-lost students. Everyone has a part in the carnival. Around 12:15 the stands close and the hawkers move with the crowd toward the stadium. With general admission seating, you ' ve got to get a seat early to avoid sitting on the goal line. The Vikings arrive en masse and do their thing. After some three hours of the stripper , half-time show, and first rate foot- ball, 59,000, usually happy fans, disperse and go their separate ways. While the parents and alumni usually head home after the parting good-byes, the students party. With concerts at the convo, cheap booze, parties, and even a few more girls than usual, football weekends definitely aren ' t the weekends to go home. If you ' re lucky, you ' ll be at St. Mary ' s at 7:30 to pick up your date (which was made two weeks previously) for the con- cert. After the concert, maybe you ' ll join a party, take advan- tage of parietals, or possibly take a trip to Frankie ' s or Louie ' s for something to eat and, of course, drink. Sunday, and the weekend is, for all purposes, over. Maybe you ' ll catch a late Mass, or maybe sleep for a change. The after- noon comes, the books becken, and its back to reality. 18

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Fall STUDENT LIFE St. Joe County, St. Joe Airport, St. Joe River, St. Joe Bank . . . the Golden Dome . . . old and new friends . . . and roommates . . . carpets in the halls . . . registration . . . addsy-dropsy . . . the traffic jam at car registration ... the crowd at the bookstore . . . Grace opens Oct. 1,7, 1 1, 21 ... the first mixer . . . gee I ' d love to but I ' ve already got a date ... the first pep rally . . . girl cheerleaders, poor spirit, and even poorer Northwestern . . . the freshmen discover hitch-hiking . . . the seniors head for Frankies . . . and the juniors . . . and the sophomores . . . Dionne Warwick in the Convo ... the ten cent shuttle bus and the man who never returned (remember the Kingston Trio) ... the first Emil T. . . . Purdue ' s got more than the Golden Girl ... a quick kick, what? . . . Ara puts the rally in the Convo . . . and the students move it back . . . sweet revenge on Duffy ... the Vikings made their debut ... the Chambers Brothers turn on ... student trip to N.Y.C. ... 18 is legal, for everything . . . S.R.O. at Yankee Stadium . . . and a great dis- play by our team . . . cool weather for U.S.C. Saturday ... the last fieldhouse rally ... the First Friday and fun, fun, fun, ... the second half and Hemple ' s kick . . . B.S. T. and a great show ... the Security crisis . . . Arthur Pears and yet an- other crisis . . . those Miracle Mets . . . the October Moratorium . . . Roberts, Cullen, and Darst . . . Fr. Barrell ' s peace mass in the Library ' s shadow ... 7 make their decision . . . 7000 re- serve theirs . . . Paul McCartney ' s death . . . We Bombed in New Haven . . . Tulane on the tube . . . it ' s about time to hit the books . . . rain, rain, rain . . . Homecoming . . . Navy . . . what happened to the floats of yesteryear? . . . man can Etter ever run . . . Pittsburgh and life is back to normal . . . Georgia Tech and life is back to dull . . . CPA sojourn to Washington ... 10 days to vacation . . . one, two pink slips? . . . after 45 years a bowl? . . . Orange, Cotton, or Sugar? . . . Texas or Ar- kansas here we come . . . the first snow and cold weather hits . . . Dow, C.I. A., the protest, 15 minutes . . . Fr. Reilly collects I.D. ' s . . . and so does Arthur Pears ... a court injunction . . . expulsions and suspensions ... the last, last and final Field- house rally and the passing of an era . . . cherish is the word . . . Tom Allen ' s final performance and yet another era passes ... the Falcons are grounded ... the Thanksgiving exodus begins. 17

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FRIDAY NIGHT Notre Dame has many great traditions, some of which are anachronisms and should be discarded, and some of which are meaningful and should be kept. A meaningful tradition that passed this year was the fieidhouse pep rally. The fieldhouse rally was as much a part of Notre Dame as the golden dome and almost as old. Hundreds of great athletes and thousands of students have passed through the fieldhouse and in its end, it did not go unnoticed. Save the fieldhouse signs abounded at even ' rally from Northwestern to Air Force. The end, when it came, was anticlimatic. Students were told at the beginning of the year that U.S.C. would be the last rally in the fieldhouse. The very day of the Michigan State rally, however, Ara person- ally had the rally moved to the convo. The students, after mak- ing a cursory appearance there, quickly moved into the old fieldhouse where they held their own rally. The administration then moved the remaining rallies back to the fieldhouse. But we ' ve seen the last of those fieldhouse rallies, the rafter climb- ers, the times of unbelievable spirit and emotion, the throng at the end, and the sweat all fall to progress. Far left, the passing of an era. Senior Tom Allen, the famous stripper of Notre Dame as seen during his final performance. Above, the Notre Dame Marching Band. Above right, 7:00 P.M. The old fieldhouse and the last of the great rallies. Right, the beginnings of a human pyramid. 19