Although the fair and funnel cake are often thought of as precursors to fall, there’s another perennial tradition, albeit contested between three colleges about who started it, that forecasts fall as well -- homecoming.Beginning in 1910, three universities did similar programs designed to “bring folks home” to watch their home team play football. Baylor, Harvard and Missouri all claim the fame for homecoming. If you’re on “Jeopardy,” you better pick Missouri as that TV show credits Missouri athletic director Chester Brewer who asked the school’s alumni to help inaugurate the new field by “coming home” for the annual contest against Kansas.