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otherOctober 19, 2004

College purchases Houck Stadium site; political cartoon from 1943; Capahas face Sachel Paige...

Compiled by Sharon Sanders

Oct. 23, 1925

Then-Southeast Missouri State Teachers College bought a quarry off Broadway and began building Houck Field House and Houck Stadium. The Academic Hall dome is at upper left.

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Oct. 21, 1943

"Sometimes I Vonder Vot I Ever Saw In You!"

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Oct. 19, 1951

The famed Sachel Paige pitched against the Capahas in 1951 and helped beat them 9-0.

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