- Wayne State University Digital Collections

Football players hold balloons in front of a homecoming float.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Delta gamma Chi Sorority members with homecoming float.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Five ladies with flower lapels sit atop a homecoming float.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

The homecoming queen sits atop her float while football players run into the field.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

A Tartars mascot float is pushed and pulled by hooded gentlemen.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Newman.

A homecoming float labeled with sign is occupied by a caged women in a cat outfit while being flanked by a two-person horse/donkey costume.

Wayne Champagne.

About a dozen women in ice cube costumes carry bottle and champagne glass props on the football field while the marching band is seated in the stands.

Homecoming float.

A float labeled "F9" is being pulled by a group of men while two men are atop hoisting the float into place; the float is of a man, an animal, and possibly a boot.

Let's Get Em in Dutch.

A homecoming float with a windmill.

A close up of the homecoming queen and finalists on their float.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

A float is pulled by people in overalls while the stands behind them are filled.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

A float resembling a wedding cake is carried by the Zeta Chi sorority.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

J. Don Marsh and Don Mae Leod (sp?)

A float and snowman with the signs "Snow 'Em Under, Tartars" and "Alpha Sigma Alpha" for homecoming.

Faye Midgley, Gail Glaser, Lynn Schlery, and Marilym Music (sp?)

Four women of the homecoming court sitting atop the backseat of a 1954 Dodge. A sign on the driver's side door reads "Queen's Court selects New '54 Dodge More to it - More in it - More of it."