Editor’s note: For the next week, the O’Collegian will bring you photos from past homecoming celebrations. Photos are from OSU yearbooks.
What many know as “America’s Greatest Homecoming” hasn’t always been as large of a celebration.
It developed throughout the years, despite ups and downs.
In 1931, because of the nation’s economic situation, the Panhellenic Council suggested all sorority chapters build only one float to represent the entire group in the parade, according to the OSU Centennial Histories Series. After a “huge protest from student organizations,” the council revised its decision.
The photos above show homecoming festivities from 1922 and 1932.
The 1922 photo is from the homecoming game against the University of Oklahoma. The game resulted in a tie, 3-3.
It was “by far, the largest crowd ever assembled on Lewis Field,” according to the OSU 1923 yearbook. “The Sooners came to Stillwater with several hundred backers, including the famous Jazz Hounds, and were astonished to find Aggieland preparing for victory,” according to the yearbook.
The photo from 1932 shows one house’s home-coming decorations.
Zeta Tau Alpha won first prize in that year; Alpha Kappa Psi and Kappa Sigma also participated, according to that year’s OSU yearbook. The homecoming game, which again served as that year’s Bedlam, was Oct. 29, 1932.
The Cowboys “completely outplayed the down-staters to win, 7-0,” according to the yearbook.
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