I’m fairly sure lots of people drank beer off campus but these guys got busted:
I haven’t been able to find out whether they were allowed back in the dorms but I’d bet you they weren’t. It sounds crazy to us these days but with some gradual loosening over time this kind of rigid regulation went on for decades.
I don’t know about you guys but to me Lauterbach looks old enough to be trusted with a beer:
Bonus: I can’t resist pointing out that the Dean at the time would have been Harry Weiser, last seen here at the Colloid Chemists Convention in Chicago, 1946.
From the wording I wonder if they had brought the demon brew back to the dorm and drank it there if that would have been acceptable. Crazy man.
I have not fact checked this, but I am reminded of this story. I have a Houston lawyer friend, Vic Driscoll who told me this story. His father was quarterback of the 1932 owls. They played LSU in the opening game. Huey Long had bought the best players he could buy for the LSU team. They came over to Houston and were beaten by Rice! Go Owls!
I don’t see a date on the newspaper article. Those guys may have been breaking the law.
“The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
THE LAST GAME OF 1933 WAS AGAINST BAYLOR ON DECEMBER 2, 1933 AND AS STATED PROHIBITION WAS OVER ON DECEMBER 5, 1933. I DON’T BELIEVE IT WAS IN 1933 AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN KICKED OFF THE TEAM. FRED LAUTERBACH WAS CAPTAIN AND ALL SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE IN 1933 AND GRADUATED IN 1934. I KNEW FRED LAUTERBACH PERSONALLY HE WAS MY FATHER.
Yeah, and they might have been underage, too. But I bet the legal thing was more of an issue.
FRED LAUTERBACH WAS OVER 21 YEARS OLD IN 1933 AND YOU MIGHT READ MY REPLY TO MR. WIESS. I ALSO KNEW FRED LAUTERBACH BIRTHDATE AS I WAS HIS SON.
FRED LAUTERBACH WAS OVER 21 IN 1933 AS I HAVE COPY OF HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE. HE WAS MY FATHER.
If the administration had done that during the early 80s, the colleges would have been nearly empty.