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Show Provo Grid Classic To Attract Throng Of Utah Grid Fans Special Cougar Decorations To Line Streets For Big University Celebration; Record Crowd Predicted For Game Provo will be the great football mecca of the west Saturday Sat-urday when two undefeated teams, the Brigham Young university uni-versity Cougars and the Utah State Agricultural college Aggies Ag-gies clash in the great Homecoming day of the year. The fifala occasion charged withS the high school. There are 40 such banners already to be placed on flag staffs along the curbing in the business district. More banners ban-ners will be made for next year and will be kept on hand for all university community celebrations. They are made of heavy canvass with the decorations done in oil painting. In the meantime the elaborate preparations for the celebration and the invasion of the Logan team Saturday are under way at the university. Eyring to Speak Dean Carl F. Eyring will be the pep speaker at the "Beat Aggie" rally at the Paramount theater Friday night, it was announced today by Charles Fletcher, in charge of the program. The rally will get under way about 9 p. m., climaxing four hours of Friday Homecoming festivities. At 5 p. m. students of the university uni-versity will participate in a pep matinee dance at the Women's gym. At 6 p. m. they will join in a torch light parade that will lead to the intersection of First East and Center streets, where a pow wow will be staged. A special movie feature will be shown at the Paramount theater at 7 p. m., following fol-lowing which the rally will get under way. all the color and pageantry which only a great collegiate football homecoming event can supply will mark one of Provo's great community com-munity celebrations of 1936. Although the Homecoming as such is sponsored by the university students and faculty, the entire city is entering into the spirit of the occasion with a genuine enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The stores will be decorated dec-orated for the occasion and a special spe-cial three-hour closing agreement will be in force from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Special Decorations Special decorations procured by the retail merchants committee of the Provo chamber of commerce consisting of Cougar banners in the university colors of blue and white will decorate University avenue and Center street, Rulon Van Wagenen, chairman of the merchants' comittee said today. The banners carry a Cougar "in j defiant attitude" and were painted by Farrell Collett of the Provo high school with the assistance of art students at the university and According to Mr. Fletcher, the entire rally program is centered around the theme. "Beat Aggies." The Cougar quartet, consisting of Royden Braithwalte, Ralph Britsch, Eldon Richardson, and Ferris Edgley .will render several numbers. Others on the program are Kent Clark, Don Searle, John Utvich, Bob Buswell, Dwight King, Dr. Eyring, Charles Fletcher, Eddie Ed-die Smart, and members of the Gold "Y" club. Coach G. Ott Romney, who is scheduled for a broadcast over KSL at 8 p. m. Friday, will not be present at the program. "Nor will the Cougars gridders be on hand. They intend to retire early that night to get the necessary rest to put them in perfect condition condi-tion for the game at 2:30 Saturday. Dance Starts Festival Initial Homecoming festivities will get under way today at 5:30 with a matinee dance in the Women's Wo-men's gym, followed by a fifteen-minute fifteen-minute student body broadcast over KSL at 11 p. m. The celebration will go forward Friday evening as described above, prior to which special Founders' Day programs will be held. A Homecoming parade will start Saturday's fireworks. It will start at 10 p. m. in the vicinity of the lower campus, and will proceed downtown to Fifth West on Center street. The Cougar-Aggie game will start at 2:30 p. m. A climatic victory vic-tory ball in the Women's gym at 9 p. m. will drop the curtain on the week's proceedings. |