Word: bands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth students always try to get at least a piece of the big drum, and when it returned from repairs in the Midwest in 1957 they especially wanted it. As the members of the Harvard Band faced the home stands and played "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," some Dartmouth fraternity pledges attacked the drum guards. The musicians turned around, were insulted to see the big drum being threatened, and ran to defend it. A half-time jam ensued with about 500 students throwing body-blocks and punches, but the musicians finally beat off their attackers with their instruments...
Before the next Dartmouth-Harvard game the usually, happy-go-lucky, play-for-anybody Band plunged itself into controversy by announcing that it would not salute the Dartmouth team with the usual medley because of "the interruption to our medley last year." After word of this cold shoulder, adverse response from both Dartmouth and Harvard alumni was so great that the Band reversed its field and decided to play for the visitors...
...show turned out to be a fine one, as the Band did one of its cleverest formations--a bottle pouring into a cocktail glass the word...
Although many feel that the Band should march on, play the music for which it is so popular, then march off, the Band continues to present half-time shows, forming objects and words. The drillmaster is the man who must each week dream up formations to please the crowd. All presentations are approved by the athletic department in advance, but the Band always tries to include as much on the risque side as possible...
...Boston sportwriter once said that the Band's word formations at Fenway Park looked like a "lino-typist's nightmare," but the Band usually seems to put on an orderly presentation for the football crowds. A sign of progress was seen in 1957 when it had grown enough through the years to be able to spell Y-O-V-I-C-S-I-N, even with dotting...