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4 Hobo Day buttons and a Hobo Day '68 sticker on the hat
Donate by Janet Sherbundy

Hobo Day 1969 sticker on the hat
Donated by Janet Sherbundy

Photographs taken by Clav Snow while he attended South Dakota State College in the 1930s. Photographs are images of Hobo Day, Military Field Day Exercises, campus buildings, and friends.

Photo copies of the Collegian

tickets, brochures, etc. [1934, 1937, 1952, 2007]

I Give Green Stamps button on the hat
Donated by Janet Sherbundy

SDSC Homecoming '13

46th Annual Hobo Day - SDSC vs. SDU - October 19, 1957

Hobo Day - Bump the Sioux - October 15, 1966

Hobo Day - Rabbits on the Move - SDSU vs. USD - October 18, 1969

Hobo Day - Rip 'em up Tear 'em up Give 'em hell Jacks - SDSU vs. UND - October 10, 1970

Hobo Day - Down with Coyotes - SDSU vs. USD - October 16, 1971

Hobo Day - Chew the Sioux - SDSU vs, UND - October 14, 1972

Hobo Day - Thump the Coyotes - SDSU vs. USD - October 20, 1973

Hobo Day - Sink the Vikings - SDSU vs. Augie - September 28, 1974

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. NDSU - The greatest story ever told - October 2, 1982

Hobo Day - A Dakota Way of Life - SDSU vs. USD - October 19, 1985

Hobo Day - Mardi Graz of the Midwest - SDSU vs. Augie

Hobos go Hollywood - SDSU vs. Augustana - October 20, 1990

Hobo Dau - Under the Big Top! - SDSU vs. UNO - October 3, 1992

Hobo Day Safari Welcome to the Jungle - SDSU vs. Morningside - October 1, 1994

Hobos in Space One Giant Leap for Hobokins! - SDSU vs. NDSU - October 14, 1995

Hobos in Hawaii - SDSU vs. UND - October 23, 1999

Hobos on the Prairie - SDSU vs. UC Davis - October 28, 2006

Hobo Day Living the Legacy - SDSU vs. Youngstown State - October 22, 2016

Hobo Day Together in the Tradition - SDSU vs. Youngstown State - October 13, 2018

Hobo Day the Timeless Tradition - SDSU vs. Indiana State - October 29, 2022

Hobo Day - Exhaust the Coyotes - SDSC vs. USD - October 19, 1963

53rd Hobo Day - NDU smells de-feet - October 10, 1964

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. USD - Bummin' to '76 - October 18, 1975

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. UND - The American Dream . . . - October 16, 1976

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. USD - Run 'em down - October 22, 1977

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. NDSU - October 18, 1980

Hobo Day - Hobo Classic: The Legend Lives On - October 11, 1986

Hobo Day - The Dakota Celebration - SDSU vs. UND - October 3, 1987

Hobos trapped in the Eighties! - SDSU vs. UNO - October 17, 1998

Traditions: Hobo Day - SDSU vs. St. Cloud State - November 1, 2003

Luck of the Hobos - SDSU vs. Missouri-Rolla - October 22, 2005

Hobos Get Physical - SDSU vs. McNeese State - October 4, 2008

Night of the Living Hobos - SDSU vs. Southern Illinois - November 5, 2011

100 Years of Hobo Day - SDSU vs. Youngstown State - October 27, 2012

Hobo Day Never Stop Wandering - October 25, 2014

Hobo Day Wander On - SDSU vs. Southern Illinois - October 5, 2019

Skin the Coyotes - 40th Annual Hobo Day - Octort 27, 1951

Shoo the Sioux - 41st Annual Hobo Day - October 18, 1952

Stomp the Sioux - SDSC vs. NDU - Hobo Day - October 23, 1954
donated by Roberta W. Williamson, Director, Moody County Historical Society

49th Annual Hobo Day - Beat the Sioux of NDU - October 8, 1960

51st Annual Hobo Day - Beat the Sioux of NDU - October 13, 1962

Hobo Day - Bomb the U - October 21, 1967

Hobo Day - We're Gonna Blow Their Mind - SDSU vs. UND - October 12, 1968

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. USD - October 14, 1978

Hobo Day - The Greatest Show in the Dakotas - October 6, 1984

Hobo Heritage - SDSU vs. Morningside - A Century of Celebrations - October 28, 1989

Hobo Halloween - SDSU vs. Augustana - October 30, 1993

Hobos in Vegas! - SDSU vs. St. Cloud State - October 11, 1997

Operation: Hobo Day - SDSU vs. North Dakota - October 5, 2002

Hobos Under Construction - SDSU vs. Augie - November 6, 2004

Hobos Save the Day - SDSU vs. UNI - October 24, 2009

Hobo Day the Tradition Lives On - SDSU vs. SIU - October 5, 2013

Hobo Day Homeward Bound - SDSU vs. UNI - October 14, 2017

44th Annual Hobo Day - It's Later than "U" think - Skin the "U" - SDSC vs. SDU - October 29, 1955

Hobo Day 45th Annual - SDSC vs. NDU - October 13, 1956

48th Annual Hobo Day - SDSC vs. SDU - State College 75 Anniversary - October 17, 1959

Hobo Day - October 16, 1965

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. USD - October 6, 1979

Hobo Day - SDSU vs. NDSU - A Hobo Odyssey - October 16, 1983

Hobos in Paradise - SDSU vs. USD - October 12, 1991

Hobos Staying Alive! A Tour Through Hobo History - SDSU vs. Morningside - October 26, 1996

Hobos in Camelot - SDSU vs. Mankato - October 7, 2000

Hobostock - SDSU vs. Augustana - October 13, 2001

007 . . . Hobos Never Die - SDSU vs. Stephen F. Austin - September 29, 2007

Peace, Love, Hobos - SDSU vs. Youngstown State - October 23, 2010

Hobo Day Always and Adventurs - SDSU vs. Northern Iowa - October 24, 2015

John M. Young letter [1952] and photo with bummobile [2000]

This collection is an artificial collection composed of collected materials, publications, and ephemera related to Hobo Day. Material is added as it is unearthed. It consists of clippings, correspondence, news releases, buttons, bumper stickers, hats, posters, a t-shirt, and photographs.

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