SUNDAY

October 19, 2003

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Classified/D3-28 EXTRA D
SIOUX 28, BISON 21 (OT)
Game coverage in sports section, E1

Dave Wallis / The Forum

Some members of the NDSU Gold Star Marching Band were biting their fingernails as they watched the fourth-quarter action of Saturday’s college football
game between North Dakota State and the University of North Dakota. The Sioux won the game in overtime at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, 28-21.

Emotions
of a rivalry
Right: NDSU head
coach Craig Bohl (right)
shakes hands with UND
head coach Dale
Lennon after Bohl’s
Bison lost
to the Sioux 28-21
in overtime.
Colburn Hvidston III / The Forum

Left: Bohl shouts

words of
encouragement
to his players during
Saturday’s game
against UND.
Colburn Hvidston III / The Forum

Sioux fan
Jennifer
Carpentier, right,
celebrates while
NDSU fan
Elizabeth Kadrmas,
left, looks on after
UND scored a
touchdown in the
third quarter.
Dave Wallis / The Forum
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SIOUX 28, BISON 21 (OT)

Game coverage in sports section, E1

Photos by Colburn Hvidston III / The Forum

Jennifer Rutz of Fargo plays catch four hours prior to Saturday’s NDSU-UND game at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. The
Alerus parking lot that was filled with tailgaters prior to the 110th meeting between the teams.

Alerus tailgaters well behaved

By Dave Olson
dolson@forumcomm.com
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Sioux fan Sharron Rubeck was feeling
sorry for North Dakota State University fans Saturday, and not
just because the Bison lost to the the University of North Dako-
ta in their annual football showdown.
“I think NDSU should come up every week so they could tail-
gate with beer,” said Rubeck, referring to the fact alcohol is not
allowed when fans gather to party before Bison games at the
Fargodome.
The Fargodome is on NDSU property and school policy does
not allow alcohol consumption in the parking lot, although an
NDSU committee is reviewing the policy.
Alcohol is allowed in a special tailgating section of the park-
ing lot of the city-owned Alerus Center, where the University of
North Daktoa Sioux hosted NDSU Saturday.
North Dakota State fans, including one wearing a toga, hold Rubeck, of Grand Forks, and others at Saturday’s game said
up identifications for Grand Forks police officers when a group one look at the Alerus Center parking lot would have showed
began chanting noticeably loud during tailgating Saturday. NDSU officials that fun and alcohol can mix without trouble.
“The grounds are well patrolled by police and they keep it
(drinking) in check,” said Mike Morley, a Grand Forks resident
and UND fan.
“I think it’s a dumb idea (to restrict alcohol),” he said. “They
(NDSU officials) are losing a lot of money and fan support.”
D.J. Guerrero, an NDSU fan and Fargo resident, said alcohol
was creating no problems for thousands of fans from both sides
who were enjoying pre-game refreshments Saturday.
“It’s too bad that dome committee isn’t here walking around,”
Guerrero said.
Alerus Center Executive Director Charlie Jeske agreed alco-
hol has not been a problem for the center.
“We’ve been fortunate with our tailgating and with our fans,”
Jeske said. “They’ve handled themselves very well.”
Jeske said police officers patrol the parking lot, but said they
usually don’t have much to worry about.
“We’ve never had an issue,” he said.
Readers can reach Forum reporter
Dave Olson at (701) 241-5555

Above: Hunter Zeman, 7, of Grand Forks, gets into the swing of things during
tailgating festivities. The car-smash activity was the project of campus student
organization Phi Beta Lambda.
Left: UND fan Todd Andinson of Oslo, Minn., checks the pork tenderloin being
prepared in the engine compartment of a remodeled 1964 Chevy pickup
converted for tailgating festivities.