Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the more local frantic antics of 2000 high school musicians who cavorted between the halves of the Donelli-led Boston University upset over Colgate in Fenway Park, the New England accolade for musical mayhem still went to the Crimson bandsmen over the weekend...
William J. Bingham '16, H.A.A. director, explained that the Athletic Association provides the wherewithal for 100 bandsmen to make one trip away from Cambridge each year. He questioned yesterday the necessity of the Band accompanying the team to other than the Yale or Princeton tilts...
Skilled as they are in letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements...
...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...
...hundred and thirty Harvard bandsmen juggled a petite, blonde B. U. majorette in their laps for a few hours yesterday afternoon but bounced her back in front of the Terrier trombones without missing a beat...