University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Crepe-paper-wrapped goal posts in the middle of the armory set the mood. Couples danced under them, the varsity football players walked through them and a rocket hung over them. The Varsity Drag, the first dance of the year, paid tribute to the T958 football Rockets. The intermission was set early so that Head Coach Harry Larche and his assistants could introduce the team. The players came through the goal posts in suits rath- er than uniforms, were applauded and then put to bed. Couples resumed dancing but remembered the goal posts and came to the game Saturday to cheer the Rock- ets on to victory over Eastern Kentucky. Varsity Drag it presents and fetes FROSH ATTENDING THEIR FIRST ALL UNIVERSITY DANCE AND UPPERCLASSMEN RETURNING TO THE ROUTINE GET NAME TAGS I 5 n I

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'iieis ...xx QL Rhymes in pire H The rally creating suspense, fulfillment of hopes as Pi Phi's squealed and dorm men yelled when Queen Janell Maeder was presented, the parade giving the University a chance to enter- tain its city with the Mother Goose characters bobbing on floats, the game providing all the thrills except that of victory, the dance offering, with its Rhymes in Rhythm, comparative relax- ation to the float builders, campaign managers, poll workers, committee chairmen, football team, cheerleaders, marching band, queen candidates, and Rocket fans - all parts of a nursery rhyme fantasy, the 1958 Homecoming, the culmination to weeks of plans, construction, election schemes, practice, teas, arrangements, hopes and expectations. 28 ., va 4'