A panty raid was a prank occurring in American coeducational colleges in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s; the term dates to February 1949.
[citation needed] The first documented incident occurred on February 25, 1949, at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.
Once inside, they unlocked the door for the remaining raiders to enter, locked the house mother in her apartment, and cut the light and phone lines.
[11] The University of California, Berkeley, had a 3,000-man panty raid in May 1956, which resulted in $10,000 in damage[12] (equivalent to $112,069 in 2023).
At the University of Michigan, panty raids were associated with fall football pep rallies in addition to being a spring ritual in the 1950s and early 1960s.