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.
"Sometimes I Vonder Vot I Ever Saw In You!"
The famed Sachel Paige pitched against the Capahas in 1951 and helped beat them 9-0.
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