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Ole Miss Homecoming Moved
OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) — University of Mississippi officials, fearful of having a football crowd on the campus during a time of racial tension, said today the Saturday game with the University of Houston would be played at Jackson, Miss., instead of Oxford.
The University of Houston had previously expressed a desire not to play the game at Oxford because of the unrest there.
The announcement, confirmed by Memorial Stadium officials in Jackson, capped a confusing series of announcements and reports that first had reported the game would be played at Oxford, and then named Houston as the site.
Thursday, Oct. 4, 1962
School officials had announced earlier today that the game would be played at Oxford as scheduled, but the Justice Department strongly opposed it, fearing what could happen when 35,000 persons, charged with the emotionalism of football, homecoming and racial unrest, crowded onto a campus still guarded by federal troops.
The team had been alerted early today to stand by for a trip to Houston.
U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy had been reported considering cancellation of the game altogether.
Last night two Justice Department officials flew to Washington to confer with Atty. Gen. Kennedy about the matter. They were due back at Oxford during the day.
The Mississippi football team, ranked seventh in the nation this year and no. 5 last year, has been
practicing at times with troops only a few hundred yards from their playing field.
The announcement came as Negro James Meredith, focal point of the unrest that broke out in bloody rioting Sunday night, was allowed to go to classes alone for the first time today. Up to now, he has been accompanied on his rounds by a handful of Deputy U.S. Marshals and a truckload of troops.
The campus was quiet again last night under the scrutiny of Army troops.
There were no incidents as Meredith, who does not plan to be on campus this weekend whether or not there is a game here, walked to his first class in solitude.
Some fraternity members engaged in some horse play, firing small firecrackers and then standing with hands behind their necks
But the MPs quickly noticed this was a joke and passed it off without any arrests.
in an attitude of surrender and arrest when Military Police came on the scene.
The game was to be the focal point for a gala homecoming weekend which traditionally includes a freshman pajama parade, huge bonfires on the campus, dances, and parties in the fraternity and sorority houses on this "Country Club" University campaand band contests for the high schools of the state.
It was announced on the floor of the Mississippi Legislature that the game would be played in Oxford and legislators were urged to help get out the crowds.
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