PULLMAN, Wash. — Following the annual “Battle of the Palouse,” which pits the Washington State University and University of Idaho football teams against one another, the student body president and student newspaper sports editor from the losing team will hoof it to the victor’s home turf.
The Game-Ball Relay will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, in
“This is a way of sharing bonds through experience and tradition between UI and WSU, said SAC adviser, Mark Dinges. “It also creates more hype to get excited for the game.”
The tradition, formerly called the Idaho Walk, started in 1938 when the sports editor of the Argonaut, the UI student newspaper, challenged WSU’s student editor for The Daily Evergreen to a contest: The editor from the losing football team would walk the eight-mile stretch to the winner’s campus.
An annual tradition through the 1974 football season, the Cougars walked just three times. The Game-Ball Relay resumed in 1998 with the revival of the annual game between the two universities.
SAC has been an active student organization at WSU since 1982. It organizes current and new events to encourage all students to take an active role in sustaining and creating traditions at WSU, acting as a bridge of encouragement for current students to become active alumni.
For more information on the game ball relay or SAC, visit its Web site at www.wsu.edu/~sac or contact the SAC adviser Mark Dinges at (509) 335-6904, mdinges@wsu.edu, or
This year the SAC will be hitting the pavement early to ask for donations to help raise money for the 2004 American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life on Sept. 24-25 at the WSU Mooberry Track.
For donation information, contact SAC treasurer Kevin Spohr at (509) 333-2752 or at kcs777@wsu.edu.
