"PURPLE OUT" Declared For Saturday
September 23, 2009 | Football
Sept. 23, 2009
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Saturday's Conference USA clash between East Carolina and UCF has been declared a "Purple Out" at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
All Pirate fans are encouraged to wear purple as ECU initiates defense of its C-USA title beginning at 3:30 p.m. Fans still needing a purple shirt for Saturday can still get an official Nike Purple Out T-shirt at Retailer Champion stores in Greenville and Raleigh while supplies last.
In addition to the Purple Out, Family Weekend and Hall of Fame/Letterwinners activities will be conducted in conjunction with the battle on the field Saturday. Five new members of the East Carolina University Athletics Hall of Fame, who will be inducted Friday night, will also be introduced to fans during a halftime ceremony on Bagwell Field. The 2009 inductees include former NAIA All-America swimmer Thomas Carroll, former baseball and basketball letterman Vince Colbert, former sprinter Danita Roseboro-Crumpler, former softball All-America Isonette Polonius and former football coach Sonny Randle.
All gameday parking lots adjacent to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium will open six hours prior to kickoff, and for fans not in possession of designated lot parking passes, Park and Ride shuttles from the Brody School of Medicine area will operate beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Shuttle return service, which will have a pickup location at the corner of 14th Street and Haskett Way, will run routes back to the BSOM remote lots for 90 minutes after the conclusion of the game.
