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Call Number OH2051-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games that were played during the early 1970s and were known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl. Participants included University of Colorado students who identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were seen as a way to address tensions between the two groups. Aaron Clay as an exception in that he played in the last of the three games (1973) just for the fun of the football game rather then out of an ideological identification with either hippie culture or anti-war sentiment. He was the quarterback for the student team. As an undergraduate, Aaron came fron a small town in Colorado; he graduated from CU-Boulder in 1975, then returned to Boulder to go to CU Law School, graduating in 1979. From that dual experience, he is able to paint a picture of the turbulent times of the early '70s and contrast it with the way things had changed by the late '70s - typified by his description of how streaking had replaced political protest on campus.
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Call Number OH2052Date 2015Contents single recording 93 minutes, 28 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about the Hairy Bacon Bowl, football games played at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field in the 1970s. The teams were comprised of counterculture students, on the one hand, and police officers, on the other hand, as a way to address tensions between the two groups. Geoff Sparks’ father Eugene Sparks, a Boulder police officer, played in some of these games. Geoff attended two of the games in early adolescence. He describes his father’s unconventional approach to policing, which featured a lot of empathy for and direct, positive interaction with the hippie population in Boulder. His approach to policing grew out of his exploration of New Age spiritual practices of the 1960s. In contrast, Eugene Sparks also was head of the police riot squad; Geoff talks about the riots that happened in Boulder during the 1960s and ‘70s, his father’s role as a police officer at that time, and some of the challenges of police work. He also describes the first of the Hairy Bacon Bowl games in terms of interactions between the two teams and his experience of the game as a spectator. He also reflects on the changes in Boulder’s culture from the 1960s/1970s compared to 2015.
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Call Number OH2053-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, versus campus and City of Boulder police officers. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Charlie Nay was a police officer with the Boulder Police Department from 1966 to 1983 and coached the police Hairy Bacon Bowl team in the first of these games, played in 1970. He believes that the games were helpful in that the familiarity that they created between police and counterculture students engendered friendliness in subsequent encounters. He describes policing during that era, including handling political protests and managing the burgeoning hippie population in Boulder. He also reflects on the evolution of policing and present-day challenges.
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Call Number OH2054-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games that were played during the early 1970s and were known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl. Participants included University of Colorado students who indentified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were meant to address tensions between the two groups. Mike Stanwood was a spectator at two of the games, one in 1971 and the other in 1975. He describes the games, the atmosphere surrounding them, and the participants. He also talks about the political and cultural settings in which they were played, which changed markedly from the early 1970s to the mid-1970s as the Vietnam War drew to a close and the intensity of counterculture sentiment began to decrease.
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Call Number OH2055-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, which occurred during the early 1970s. Participants included University of Colorado students who identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were seen as a way to address tensions between the two groups. The idea for the games originated with the Program Council office at CU. Phil Lobel became involved with Program Council in 1973 and then led the program from 1976 to 1979. He touches on the concept of the Hairy Bacon Bowl, but by the time he was Program Council director, the days of the Hairy Bacon Bowl competitions were almost over - he describes the change in culture at that time from the tense, seriousness of anti-war protests to a light-hearted one exemplified by the practice of streaking. Much of the interview focuses on the transformation of Program Council into one of the most successful student organizations of its kind in the country (culminating in Program Council winning the 1978 Billboard Magazine College Talent Buyer of the Year Award) and how Mr. Lobel's work for Program Council paved the way to his long career in entertainment public relations. He provides a fascinating window into the workings of Program Council and into the music scene of the 1970s.
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Call Number OH2056Date 2015Description Bill Shpall attended CU Boulder as an undergraduate during the early 1970s. As a member of the Program Council board, he became involved with and participated in a series of football games that were held in those years that came to be known as The Hairy Bacon Bowl because they matched up young people who were or looked like hippies (hairy) against police officers ("pigs" in the parlance of the time; hence "bacon"). He talks about what Boulder and the University of Colorado were like during those years, culturally and politically (including unrest after the Kent State killings, hippie transients in town, ROTC, student/police interactions); reflects on the games themselves, which he describes as being tremendously fun but athletically serious; and tells about the direction his life took after those tumultuous years.
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Call Number OH2058-VDate 2015Description Shep Bryan attended CU Boulder as an undergraduate during the early 1970s. He lived in Boulder during the tumultuous counterculture years of the early 1970s, and he talks about how that culture dovetailed with his own young adult rebellion. During that time, he participated in one of a series of football games that were held during those years that came to be known as The Hairy Bacon Bowl because they matched up young people who were or looked like hippies (hairy) against police officers ("pigs" in the parlance of the time; hence "bacon"). He reflects on what the culture of the time and the Hairy Bacon Bowl meant to him. He also talks about his life after his CU years, including doing a stint in the Merchant Marine, becoming a born-again Christian, his marraige and family, and his work as both a businessman and a man of faith.
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Call Number OH2059Date 2015Contents single recording; 45 minutesDescription This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Glen Freiberg came to the University of Colorado, Boulder, as a freshman in 1970. Alongside his studies in biology, he was a staff photographer for the Colorado Daily and the photo editor and darkroom director for the university. He photographed one of the Hairy Bacon Bowl games and describes it as a low-key, good-natured, incremental step in reducing tensions between the police department and counterculture students. He describes the anti-war protests in Boulder during the Vietnam War and describes watching the draft lottery on television in his dorm room. He reflects on his lack of identification with the hippie movement during his college years, when he was strongly focused on his studies and saw aspects of the hippie movement as a fad. He discusses ways in which the concept of the Hairy Bacon Bowl might be applied to today’s political issues and offers an opinion about the pitfalls of gun control. He briefly describes his career in cancer research.
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Call Number OH2060Date 2015Contents single recording; 45 minutes, 13 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. From January 1970 to December 1972, Karen Schwartz was a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned a degree in music education with a vocal emphasis. She describes Boulder and being a student at the University of Colorado in the early 1970s, including discussion of the topics of hippies in Boulder, Vietnam War protests, the fallout from the Kent State killings in 1970, attitudes toward the police at that time, and usage of marijuana during that era. Although she was not aware of the Hairy Bacon Bowl games while she was living in Boulder, she paints a picture of the backdrop of the place and time during which they occurred.
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Call Number OH2061-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about the culture of protest during the 1960s-1070s in Boulder County. The interviews particularly examine football games called the Hairy Bacon Bowl that took place between radicalized students and hippies on the one hand, and police officers on the other hand, as a way to address those tensions between those two groups. Fred Gerhardt's father, a Boulder police officer, played in these games. Around that time Fred was in the police cadet program as a high school student and later fought in Vietnam. Since 1979 he has been a member of the Boulder police force. He describes hippie culture of the '60s and '70s, anti-war protests in Boulder, and anti-police sentiment at the time. He also reflects on local changes in law enforecement practice over the years, which he believes have reduced the previously high number of high-speed pursuits and violent interventions by police, compared to the "community policing" policies that he sees being in effect today.
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Call Number OH2062-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, which occurred during the early 1970s. Participants included University of Colorado students who indentified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were seen as a way to address tensions between the two groups. Roger Walker, who was a CU student during that time, lived in the co-op called Cloud Nine and played in one of the games along with a number of fellow Cloud Nine residents. He talks about the football game and tells stories about student life and the politics and cultural ideals of the time, including the way opposition to the war in Vietnam and the ideals of hippie culture shaped people's ideas. He reflects on ways in which a technique similar to the Hairy Bacon Bowl games might be used to address current societal problems such as racial tensions.
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Call Number OH2063-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about a series of football games called the Hairy Bacon Bowl that took place between University of Colorado students with counterculture leanings on the one hand, and campus and city police officers on the other hand, as a way to address those tensions. Bill Robbins, who was a campus police officer from 1968 to 1972, helped organize and played in the first two of these games. He brings the perspective of having been a Vietnam veteran and an older college student, as well as a campus police officer. He describes coming up with the idea for the games due to his desire to improve communications between the student and police groups, what it was like to play in the games, and how he thinks they were successful in their goal. He also talks about being on the police side of anti-war and other protests, hippies in town during that era, the sense of danger he sometimes experienced as a police officer, and his philosphy of how to defuse tense situations.