SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Nationwide 'streaking' fad debuts in South Dakota during arena basketball game

This week in South Dakota history: March 6-12

Sioux Falls’ first streaker. The Arena, March 1974. Photo: Argus Leader.

A Harvard sophomore swallowed 24 goldfish in the 1930s. 35 students in Missouri crammed into a phone booth in the 1950s. And a half-century ago, a then-new fad of running nude through spectator events and other public settings arrived in South Dakota.

“Streaking” was already strong nationwide when 46 students from Columbia University in New York claimed the title of the longest streak, running a mile and a half accompanied by a 16-piece band, cheered on by about 1,000 onlookers. And that very same night in March of 1974, streaking hit Sioux Falls, according to an Argus Leader report.

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