{"id":4802,"date":"2015-09-15T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:14:17","slug":"sau-family-day-features-fun-and-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2015\/sau-family-day-features-fun-and-football\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU Family Day features fun and football"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Family Day this Saturday at Southern Arkansas University will offer visitors a mixture of fun SAU traditions, the honoring of an SAU icon, and will culminate with a football game featuring the undefeated Muleriders.\"Family<\/p>\n

The day will begin at 11 a.m. with an SAU organization fair at the SAU duck pond. This year\u2019s Residence Hall Association Bed Race at 1 p.m. is the 35th installment of SAU\u2019s colorful and unique tradition. It pits two teams of five on a narrow strip of road at Crescent Lane starting behind the Greek Theatre with decorated beds hoisted up on \"Familybicycle tires. Four members of each team push the beds at harrowing speeds while the fifth brave and helmeted soul holds on, wishing all the while he or she would have stayed inside to study.<\/p>\n

If you still need an adrenaline rush after the bed race, enjoy the rest of the Family Day activities, which includes the\"SAU annual Great Greek Canoe Races at 2 p.m. the SAU duck pond and at 4 p.m. a free family picnic, Mulegating and pep\u00a0rally at the lawn of the former Welcome Center.<\/p>\n

\"CoachAt 5:30 p.m., the football field at SAU\u2019s Wilkins Stadium will officially become \u201cRip Powell Field\u201d during a pre-game ceremony. Coach Powell led the Southern Arkansas University football team to 62 wins during his 10 seasons as the Muleriders\u2019 head coach. Nearly 40 years later, the field where many of those victories were achieved will soon bear his name. This ceremony comes after many of Powell\u2019s former athletes joined together to raise more than $100,000 in his name.\"Mulerider<\/p>\n

The day will conclude with the 2-0 Mulerider football team taking on Harding University at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

The complete schedule for the 2015 Family Day is as follows:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.<\/td>\nOrganization Fair (SAU Duck Pond)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 p.m.<\/td>\nRHA 35th Annual Bed Races (Crescent Drive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00 p.m.<\/td>\nFamily Reception (Fincher Hall)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 p.m.<\/td>\nAnnual Great Greek Canoe Races (SAU Duck Pond)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.<\/td>\nMulegating\/Free Family Picnic (Welcome Center lawn)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 p.m.<\/td>\nPep Rally (Welcome Center lawn)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30 p.m.<\/td>\nNaming ceremony for “Rip Powell Field” (Wilkins Stadium)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6:00 p.m.<\/td>\nMulerider Football (SAU vs. Harding University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Family Day this Saturday at Southern Arkansas University will offer visitors a mixture of fun SAU traditions, the honoring of an SAU icon, and will culminate with a football game featuring the undefeated Muleriders. The day will begin at 11 a.m. with an SAU organization fair at the SAU duck pond. This year\u2019s… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[276,7753,143],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community-corner","8":"category-homepage","9":"category-student-life","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}