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Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Football moms have fun at the Stout game lighting off the canon

The man behind the cannon

Blake Erwin, Assistant Campus Editor October 22, 2023

Every time the UW-Whitewater Football team scores during a home game something unique to Whitewater occurs, a revolutionary era-style cannon goes off! This unique tradition can only be done thanks to the...

Mike Leako ( above) is known by the campus and locals as “ the cannon guy” for shooting a cannon when the UW-Whitewater Football team scores touchdowns, Saturday Nov. 6th, 2021.

Playoffs lack boom of regular season

Parker Olsen, Assistant Sports Editor November 14, 2021

As NCAA playoffs kick into action, the UW-Whitewater sports game day experience gets limited. Playoff games are meant to be a neutral atmosphere, meaning the host has to give up part of its home field...

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