Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Homecoming history

Got a question about the history of homecoming here, and in particular did our homecoming start earlier than some other schools or...? Our started in 1947, our rivals at Geneseo started theirs in 1953, so that's good, lol. That was from checking the student newspapers in nyshistoricnewspapers.org.  The general story is that homecoming, from it's inception in the pre WWI era, was closely linked to college football, and Teachers Colleges generally didn't have much in the way of football teams until after WWII, when enrollments grew, especially of men.

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