The particular event's popularity peaked in the 1980s, though the practice ended in the 1990s due to liability concerns by university administrators.
== Notable faculty ==
== Notable alumni ==
== Notes ==
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Christensen, Lawrence O. "Pains of Birth and Adolescence: The University of Missouri and Its Rolla Campus, 1871–1915." Missouri Historical Review 79 (April 1985): 357–372. online
Eisenman, Harry J. "Origins of engineering education in Missouri", Missouri Historical Review (1969) 63#4 pp 451–460. online
Huber, Patrick, and Foster, Stephen "Making Boys into Miners: The Freshman Fight and Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1903–1945." Missouri Historical Review 102 (July 2008): 195–213. online
== External links ==
Official website
Athletics website
