D«,iv Emerald Sports
Oregon
Get ready for wild Homecoming
(ft readv students; the
always wild and unpre
dictable Homecoming
Weekend kicks off tonight yvith
the "Crush the Cougars" bonfire
and barbm.ua in the Autxun Sta
dium parking lot.
Of course all you returning stu
dents know how out of control
and really wacko this night usu
ally gets. It will be years until
anyone w ho was present forgets
lost year's bonfire before Oregon's
game against California. Ten
thousand screaming students rip
ping up more than 1.000 stuffed
teddy I tears. Whew!
Friday night's festivities are set
to begin at H p.m. and more than
500 cougar pinatas will be set up
around Autzen Stadium for stu
dents to pound. Hotter get there
early before someone else gets the
candy corn and Per dispensers.
For those of you who don't
have a sweet tooth — don't fear.
There is plenty of fun set up for
you as well There will be three
Mercury Cougars in the yvest end
of the parking lot, and for St, you
get three swings of a baseball bat
at the car.
The highlight of the evening
will come around 11 p.m. when
the voting will lie done for Home
coming King and Queen.
.Saturday morning there will be
plenty of activities prior to the
Oregon-Washington State game,
but that will be nothing com
pared to what happens at half
time.
The Pacific-10 Conference has
granted Oregon a special exemp
tion to extend halftime to a full
Sunk Mims
hour so the "I>m k t Jomecoming"
parade can take plat*. Every ( lass
has already man** their floats for
the procession from Aut/en Sta
dium to Hayward Field Fire
trucks will also transport students
by class from the name to the
parade.
The main event of the parade
will he the coronation of the
Homecoming King and Queen.
Once the selection is done, the
parade will return Ivk k to Autzen
Stadium where the well-rested
Ducks and Cougars will play the
second half of their game
Once the game is over, the
Homecoming Dance will hegin at
Me Arthur Court The featured
performers are International
Anthem. The Crawdads of Pure
Love and a hunch of other bands
that can't find a gig anywhere
outside of Eugene, singing their
own versions of ‘Whoomp, There
It Is.”
There will he plenty of room
reserved at the front of the stage
for those of you who feel tfie need
to do the “hippie dance,” which
is made up of people in tie-dyed
shirts spinning in circles in their
hare feet.
For all those who haven't fig
ured il out. the above merits obvi
ously will not oet or. in fact. I
don't think anything different
o< i urs for the Homecoming
game
11ns is my fifth veer at Oregon,
and I hove never heard anyone
take s|mk ial notice or even men
tion that a game is the Home
coming game. By the wav does
basketball, tennis, volleyball or
any other sport have a Home
i ommggnnie. or is this weekend
of ina< tivitv set up for football
alone?
I don't even know what is sup
posed to happen on n Home
coming Weekend, or what hap
pens at other colleges What is
Homecoming supposed to mean
or represent? All I know is that
T-shirts commemorating this
weekend are on sale, but they
don’t clear this matter up at all
The one spei ial event set up
for this weekend is the "Home
coming Pep Rally" at the KMU
Courtyard, featuring head coat h
Ku h Brooks, broadcaster |erry
Allen and some others. I sure
hope this is (letter than the pep
mliv last year with Allen and Iwis
kethall coat h |errv Green You all
remember that rally when Green
tried to stir up the dozen or so
fans who showed up
1 know I II be there, if for no
other reason than to see if Brooks
can clear up what this Home
coming thing is supposed to
mean.
Steve Mims is the sports editor
of the Emerald.
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