Word: band
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present another. He took a tune from the George Gershwin hit musical "Of Thee I Sing", mixed in well-known melodies from Ivy League college songs, and produced "Wintergreen." It met with so much success that it has since become the closest thing to a theme song the band has in its repertoire...
Under a succession of competent heads, the band continued, but only as a good football season group. No attempt was made to branch out, and with the last strains of "Harvardiana" after the Yale game each playing year came to an official...
...their greatest show up to today, the Tercentary Celebration in 1936, the band played for the first time Anderson's specially arranged Harvard medley. "Tercentenaria." At the closing celebration, the musicians climbed aboard a barge, and introduced the piece to cheering onshore crowds while sailing down the Charles River past the Andering sky made it one of the most spectacular productions of the decade...
Michigan saw the band, which made its longest trip up to that time, in 1938, when Harvard played at Ann Arbor. Help from the HAA and generous alumni sent the musicians, who up to 1937 had paid all their expenses out of their own pockets...
After war came to the nation, the band continued active for one year. 1942 was the last year that a civilian group played for the Crimson, however, for most of the musicians joined the Armed forces, and football as an official intercollegiate competition soon ceased at Soldiers Field...