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BU Yesterday
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Week of 30 October 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 12 |
BU Yesterday
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The November 1956 Homecoming Parade seems to
have taken an unusually short route: around the
bases at Braves Field, which BU purchased in 1953.
To the left of this picture is the old right field
open pavilion, and to the right, the covered
grandstand along the first-base line. Minus the
overhang, that grandstand still exists as part of
Nickerson Field. The "Smash the Barrier" reference
on the Homecoming float may refer to Capt. Chuck
Yaeger's first supersonic flight, in 1947, and it
does indeed look like a papier mâché
terrier sitting atop an X-1 rocket -- aimed at a
football goalpost. |
