Good topic for a Monday morning. Went freshman year at Cyde. Lived at Storms Hall, 6th floor Coover, which is now gone. We walked to games so parking was no big deal to us. As freshman we had to go early to try and reserve seats for upperclassmen. Best memories of that year were 'body passing' - where someone would run out of the stands, grab a cheerleader, drag her over across the track, then start passing her up to the top of the east side. Soon the chant of 'turn her over...turn her over' could be heard from those in our section and others...After a while the male cheerleaders started intercepting those advances, so folks in the lower sections just resorted to latching onto some willing female prospects close to their seats - and away they went...Also during that time, it was allowed, even encouraged, to have fans come onto the field and form the 'tunnel' that the players ran through when they entered the game. This was great fun, you got to get down on the turf, cheer on the guys when they came in, etc. We had a football player who lived on our floor that year. He didn't get much playing time and always liked to try to be one of the last guys to run out onto the field through the student tunnel. By game time we were naturally pretty well lit and feeling our oats, so it was always a challange to see if we could try to tackel our buddy as he came along. After the first couple of games he was really looking for us and would lower his shoulder, sending us scrawney freshmen for a loop. Of course, it was usually his best hit of the day.
I also remember 'The Mic Men'. These were sudents that would be out on the track section by the cheerleading section. They were hooked up to a sound system and were able to assist the cheers by speaking directly to the crowd. I think K-State used to, or still does this kind of thing. Like someone said earlier - when big George Amundson was leading the boys south toward Lincoln Way and the cheer would go up 'All the way to Lincoln Way', the Mic Men and student section would change it up a bit to 'All the way to the Cave Inn'.