{"id":1781,"date":"2016-02-17T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/homecoming-its-a-wrap\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:24:25","slug":"homecoming-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/homecoming-its-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming: it\u2019s a wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather cooperated and so did Samford as Furman celebrated a memorable homecoming weekend under sparkling skies.<\/p>\n<p>In a big win, the football team bested Samford 35-17 to move to 5-5 overall and 4-2 in the Southern Conference. Also on Saturday, the men\u2019s soccer team \u00a0put away Davidson 1-0 and the volleyball team defeated Elon 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit Aaward went to Pi Kappa Phi and Delta Gamma. Sigma Nu and Delta Delta Delta blew the judges away with their T-shirt designs, but\u00a0Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi\u00a0came back to win the chalking contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit Week banner award went to Pi Kappa Phi and Delta Gamma, with Sigma Chi, Kappa Delta, and Alpha Kappa Alpha awarded with the most entertaining Horseplay Skits.<\/p>\n<p>The Homecoming float award went to Sigma Nu and Delta Delta Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Third place overall for Homecoming went to Sigma Chi, Kappa Delta, and Alpha Kappa Alpha. Second place overall went to Sigma Nu and Delta Delta Delta<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the overall winner of Homecoming Spirit Week 2013 was Pi Kappa Phi and Delta Gamma.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Morris was crowned Homecoming King and Meg Austin crowned Homecoming Queen. Daniel Hoilet was also named the winner of FUSAB&#8217;S Havoc Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Fleming, Thomas Nantz &#8217;14\u00a0 and John Kiser &#8217;14 captured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30240240@N04\/sets\/72157637444654726\/\">some photographs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-hcmlJ0SyvM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video<\/a> from the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather cooperated and so did Samford as Furman celebrated a memorable homecoming weekend under sparkling skies this past weekend. In a big win, the football team bested Samford 35-17 to move to 5-5 overall and 4-2 record in the Southern Conference. Also on Saturday, the men\u2019s soccer team \u00a0put away Davidson 1-0 and the volleyball team defeated Elon 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}