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| Title | Houstonian 1957 |
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| Date | 1957 |
| Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1957, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 23 1957 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This image is in the public domain and may be used freely. If publishing in print, electronically, or on a website, please cite the item using the citation button. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Athletics |
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| File Name | yearb1957310.jpg |
| Transcript | COLORFUL ATHLETICS In the fall, Saturday becomes a panorama of the sounds and color and movement of a crowd watching the game . . . Football is speed and precision and skill, excitement and spirit . . . Every person in the throng is a vivid part of the scene, whether he is a program vendor or a cheerleader, a football player or a student in the card section . . . The first murmuring roar rolls from the stands when the Cougar team approaches the field for the pre-game warm- up exercises. From then on, there may be lulls in the sounds, but never silence as frantic calls of "Hold that line," and jubilant students counting the number of points scored are heard echoing through the bowl . . . The crisp excitement of winter weather finds a match in the speed and excitement of winter sports . . . Later in the season, cheering fans, intent on the clean, precise actions of five men on a basketball court, fill the gym . . . Throughout the winter, this is the focus of the sports picture . . . Then it's spring, and the emphasis shifts to the outdoors again as track, baseball, tennis and golf take the spotlight. Boys in sweatsuits become a familiar sight on the campus as the track- sters spend their afternoons at the stadium. National honors come to the University as the golfers take to the links. On warm spring afternoons the sounds familiar to baseball echo across from the high school field. And on the tennis courts "Big Red" once again asserts itself as an important member of the MVC. 347 |