Fieldstock chariot race sees two teams
On Saturdayafternoon, two teams of five fraternity brothers dashed across the Green with homemade chariots in tow as part of the eighth annual Fieldstock weekend. Evenly matched until the very end, Psi Upsilon pulled ahead at the last second as the wheels began to fall off the Chi Heorot chariot.
Though rain put a damper on Friday’s block party, Saturday’s sunny sky boded well for the chariot race and other competitions in the Fieldstock Games, which offered cash prizes of $500, $250 and $50 to the top three teams. Other events included lemonade guzzling, volleyball and tug-of-war, during which Heorot handily beat the sisters of Alpha Xi Delta sorority.
Chariot race numbers declined this year because teams were allowed to choose which five out of the afternoon’s six events they wanted to participate in, instead of being required to enter them all, said 2015 Class Council President Justin Sha ’15.
“We thought it would be more fair to teams who weren’t in Greek houses,” Sha said.
“We had breakage ten feet into the race, a wheel fell off,” Heorot team member Henry Franco ’15 said.
Though around ten teams typically participated in the chariot race in the few years following the tradition's revival in 2006, numbers have declined in recent years.