The Collegian

Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Chuck Grimmett The bookstore designed and ordered T-shirts to celebrate football's win over Grand Valley State University. They sold out but should be restocked Friday.

To celebrate Hillsdale's surprise homecoming win over Grand Valley State University, the Hillsdale bookstore began selling a new T-shirt on Oct. 30. The shirts were sold out the same day.

"They were gone within two hours," Cindy Willing, the director of the college bookstore, said. "They're big sellers."

The shirts display the score of the game, along with the date and the stadium name. The Hillsdale Chargers helmet and logo appear on the shirt, but GVSU's does not. Instead of GVSU's helmet logo, the No. 1 takes its place, which represents GVSU's rank in the GLIAC conference.

"We had to get permission from Grand Valley State to use their logo on our shirts," Willing said. "We sent them an image of the first shirt we created and they said it was inappropriate use of their image and we had to take it off."

For the design, the bookstore used a picture of the scoreboard taken by Sally Nichols and sent it to MV Sport, one of the companies which manufactures the clothing sold in the bookstore, Willing said.

"It's cool they're selling the shirt because it keeps the memory alive," said Kurt Masciovecchio, a freshman who works at the bookstore.

Those who want a T-shirt won't have to wait long.

"We have reordered a batch a T-shirts and they should on sale again this Friday," Willing said.

The T-shirts come in sizes small to 3XL and sell for $11.99 each.

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