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God Bless Coach Hoeppner.  This win over Purdue was for you and all of the fans that needed to see your dream come true.   IU 27 PU 24....

Indiana University 

 (not the University of Indiana!)

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Considered by the New York Times as the most beautiful campus in the world, It's campus is what a college is supposed to resemble.  It's buildings are all (but one) Indiana Limestone, the same stuff that went into the Empire State Bldg., Pentagon, most of Washington etc. 

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The Sample Gates,  serve as a welcoming entryway for students into Indiana’s beautiful 1,860-acre campus. The gates, constructed of Indiana limestone, mark the entrance to the Old Crescent, the site of IU's historic campus buildings built between 1884 and 1908.

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The Student Building, , was completed in 1905 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. , , was completed in 1905 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The 500,000-square-foot Indiana Memorial Union is the campus centerpiece - a place where students go to study, relax, eat, bowl, watch a movie, and even to shop. It is one of the world's largest college unions.  It also has a hotel, but don't try to get in it during a football weekend.

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The Rose Well House, an open-air pavilion in the heart of campus, covers the original well for IU and was a gift from Theodore F. Rose in 1908. Tradition holds that a female student is not officially a co-ed until she has been kissed beneath its dome at midnight.

 Through good and bad thick and thin, IU football fans come to tailgate mainly from Indianapolis, 55 miles to the north, or closer-in from surrounding communities.  There are however, many that travel from a few hours south on the Ohio River ala Louisville, Tell City or Evansville (you can't get there from here).   Many come from the Chicago area almost four hours north and some even treck in regularly from Traverse City, Michigan which must take at least 10 hours.

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 Coach Hep's Walk where the team comes to the stadium though a Crimson throng 

The Late Coach Hep

The Lee Party From Bedford, 

Limestone Capitol of the World

The Robertson Party from Newport Beach CA

Dave and Dave Kickin back prior to the win over ISU

 

Cindy, Chad, Joe, Adrian and Chris

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Early arrivers for 2004 Season

They start young at IU

Sure they go in to the game

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Cold weather doesn't deter these Tell City tailgaters

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Here they are in warm weather

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These AXs are having a reunion

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Jason and Suzanne enjoy a Leinenkugel's.  What will they think about this at N.I.F.S.? She's a lawyer now.

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The Drozda party

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They start young at IU trecking down from Indy's fashionable north side.

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Which one is the Turkey? They cooked three Turkeys, honest!

Rated the most beautiful college town in the world (N.Y. Times), Bloomington sits in a very hilly limestone area formed by the last glacier some 20,000 years ago.

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Traveling to Bloomington from Louisville/Columbus via 46, Friday evening.

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What at time of the year to be going to IU.  The hills are beautiful.

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The library in the Fall on America's most beautiful campus.. 

Screw Purdue and nautical I and U flags from some creative tailgaters.

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Johnsonville, French's, 7up...it doesn't get any better that this.

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The Hoosiers march on the Gophers.

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The Helmet Heads and the Marching Hundred rock. to "We Aint Gonna Take  It, Anymore."  This place is just as red as Nebraska.

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click stadium to go to IU's site

 

 

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