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Originally Posted by richwig
Did they ever explicitly state that the students were from MSU? I've heard from reliable MSU sources that the opening scene with the students freezing in swirling snow was filmed outside the MSU Union, but I thought the narrator referred just to a "Midwestern university." Geez, MSU would've had what, 7500 students in 1960?
I also heard that crowd sounds for a movie -- maybe Spartacus, that'd make sense -- were taped in Spartan Stadium. As the story goes at halfime they had the crowd roar in certain ways to fit the script. 
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Yes, it's explicitly stated.
The writer of the novel "Where The Boys Are" was the well known writer Glendon Swarthout, was a faculty member at
MSU.
And no,
MSU got big in the years immediately following WWII. By 1960,
MSU had been in the Big Ten for years and was big.
I believe that Swarthout also wrote "The Shootist," by the way.
And yeah, at halftime of an
MSU-ND game they led the crowd in the cheers they wanted for Spartacus.