Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH) Bulldogs may have lost the homecoming game to St. John Vianney on Friday night, but even in the absence of homecoming queens and kings, festivities in the form of the new carnival tradition had students in a winning mood, unfazed by the impending knowing and unknowing losses of the court and the game.

Network news vans on the scene, most students asked by Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect said that the new tradition taking hold this year of abandoning the king and queen ritual, that had evolved from a singular senior king and queen into a crowning of the royal highnesses with an entire court entourage for each grade, wouldn’t matter much.

Freshmen, especially, said they couldn’t miss something they hadn’t experienced. The festivities were more their focus for the night.

Others agreed and got to the business of pre-game fun at what is now, and has been for a few years, dubbed the RFH Homecoming Carnival.

Take a look at some of the pre-game fun (Don’t forget to give pics a click to enlarge!) …

— Elaine Van Develde