Show Homecoming Tradition Dates Back To Battling Classmen of After a somewhat hectic the university homecoming tradition is now coming into its own as a if not slightly conclave of tal grads and unsentimental It all so the story back when some beery frosh of the class of painted their class numeral on the hill only to have their superiors of obliterate it in a battle in which the mayhem statutes were consistently and flagrantly The yearly blood-letting was finally culminated at the behest of the heirs with the construction of a huge concrete U in This symbol was the object of a pilgrimage by old which developed into the first official homecoming in At the first celebration torchlight parades at night and a grand procession in the day paraded through Salt Lake City streets to the cheers of the populace and the jeers of the police The first fraternity and sorority open houses were held for returning alums in while in the songfest was added to marked the advent of while students donned pajamas and other articles of underclothing and paraded down Main Shocked outcries of the devotees of Anthony Corn-stock forced the immediate discontinuation of the House decorations first became a matter of conscious competition and concern in 1934 when loving cups were offered to organizations for outstanding house Homecoming finally succumbed to the hoary university institution of the queens in 1938 when the first Homecoming queen was Lucille Jensen became the first of a regime of rulers of the So as classes come and more and more dewy-eyed old grads come back to the campus and joyously recount the days when beat hell out of |