>Rule 6-25:
>
>NOTE 2: Spectators are not permitted to use artificial noise makers, air
>horns, or electronic amplifiers during the course of a game.  After a warning,
>a bench minor penalty may be assessed against the offending fans' team for
>delay of game.
 
Not so long ago RPI would pick one home game a year for it's "Big Red
Freak Out".  The idea behind the Freak Out was for all the fans to wear
red and noise makers were passed out at the door to EVERYONE.  By noise
makers I mean, those long plastic obnoxious sounding horns.  Anyway, once
the game began, everyone would CONSTANTLY blow their horn, regardless of
what was going on on the ice.  All you would hear in the Houston Field House
was one big, loud, constant humming sound.
 
I beleive the last Freak Out was in '87, when RPI played Brown.  The Brown
coach was very upset by the noise, and lobbied to have the above rule about
spectator noise makers instituded.
 
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