Scavenger Hunt Answer Key

 

When was MTSU established?
1911
Name the original four buildings on campus. 
President's House, Rutledge Hall, Main [now KOM], and Dining Hall [now Alumni Center]

The second football field was named Horace Jones Field. Who was Horace Jones?

Son of the first president of the Normal School and a math instructor and athletic recruiter in the 1920s and 1930s
What were the names of the four original literary societies on campus?
Dromgoole, Claxton, Grady, and Murfree
Name two crops grown on campus in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Alfalfa and cotton
What other college was in town until about 1950?
Tennessee College for Women
When was the name "Blue Raiders" chosen?
1934
When were blue and white chosen as the school colors?
1912

In what year did enrollment first pass 10,000?

1971

What did women students do for fun in the 1930s?

Sports (especially basketball and tennis), hiking, picnicking, scrapbooking

Name one special rule that applied to women in the 1930s.

Could not go driving with a "young man" without a chaperone!

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