Word: bandsmen
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...bridge ahead, there appeared the figure of a single policeman, outlined against the dawn. 'Where do you think you guys are going?" he barked. Nobody heard, or at least nobody listened, for they continued to advance. Finally, frustrated by the incongruity of 170 red-coated, instrument-bearing Harvard bandsmen, marching irresistably in the early light, the Cornell policeman yielded, "There's over a hundred of you, and only one of me," he admitted dourly. "I can't stop...
...trouble started when four busloads of bandsmen en route to Columbia Saturday stopped and marched through Yale, awakening undergraduates and summoning the New Haven police. Strauss and Upton were arrested...
...band was en route to New York in four chartered buses to play at the Columbia game Saturday, when members decided to stop at New Haven and serenade the Eli campus. Over 150 bandsmen participated and, according to New Haven police, nearly started a riot...
...parade continued. Past the swank Hotel Taft, past a slumbering business district, and back to the Harkness Common where the bandsmen stopped, and, as if to offer some consolation, blared out the Yale medley. A tuba player had trouble keeping the beat; he was laughing too hard. Finally, the band about-faced and sprinted back to the busses. The musicians all boarded, but the busses didn't move. Someone pointed out a window...
...regular dragnet," someone shouted, as a dozen burly New Haven policemen lumbered purposefully up the street. A trumpet bugled "dum-da-da-dum." The ever-increasing crowd of Yalies roared. "We want 'em arrested!" shouted a fellow in blue shorts. "We want 'em arrested!" chanted the mob. The bandsmen jeered back, taking up the melody of "To Hell with Yale," but by now the police had arrived and boarded the busses. They ordered the caravan to a nearby police precinct. The uninhibited enthusiasm of the bandsmen dulled only little. "What do they want, their pictures in Life?" asked a drummer...