| A festive Homecoming crowd of 15,000--largest ever assembled
for a football game at Auburn--roared in approval as Coach Jack Meagher's
Plainsmen whipped Clemson, 28-7, on November 29, 1941. Eight days
later the nation was at war, and many of the young men in this picture
shortly became members of the military. Elements of the cadet corps
are shown assembled behind the Field House (Petrie Hall) and on the baseball
diamond (upper right) before marching onto the football field.
The Auburn skyline consisted of Samford Hall, the water tower behind
Toomer Drugstore, and the college smokestack. Just to the right and
northeast of the Field House is Tichenor Hall, completed in 1940 and known
as "new building" for more than a decade before being named for Auburn's
third president. The Quadrangle at upper right, completed just in
time for 1940 fall occupancy, housed 404 of the 700 women students that
semester. -- Photo: 1942 Glomerata
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