Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Band Director Thomas "Gee-Whiz" Everett, early one Sunday morning in the 70s as the band was returning from the University of Pennsylvania, the bus made an unscheduled stop in New Haven...
...Band was leading a midnight march through the Yale Quad and the streets of New Haven, when police arrived threatening to arrest the leader of the group. The officer's complaint was that the band was leading a public parade without a permit...
When no one claimed responsibility, band mom Alice "Mom" Tondel, a small lady who was in her sixties, stepped out and shouted "I am in charge!" The police officer made an about face, sat down on the curb behind his car, and started laughing. "Go, get out of here," he shooed them through tears...
...band's antics don't end there. Until it became impossible for the band to get ice time at Brighton Hockey center, the Harvard and Yale bands engaged in an annual 2 a.m. hockey game. Two minutes before the end of one now-historic game, the Harvard side was down by several goals. Finally, they sent out their secret weapon: a band members who also started for the hockey team...
...Everett's memory, by the final whistle Harvard had won by six goals. The Yale Band, outraged, demanded that Harvard's star player was a ringer...