Bascom Hill Society Flipbook | Wisconsin Alumni Association

One of Homecoming’s biggest spectacles doesn’t involve the marching band or the football team. It’s hundreds of third-year law students with canes charging down the field toward Camp Randall Stadium’s south end zone before kickoff. Some of the future attorneys sprint like running backs going for a touchdown. Others stroll or strut, swinging their canes, to savor the moment and avoid the crush. When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the goalpost. It’s a decades- long tradition that holds that catching their canes means they’ll win their first cases after graduation.

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