Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrangements were made with the HAA for seats that turned out to be in section 35, the same place occupied by today's band. With Frederick L. Reynolds '20, directing, the group played at its first game on October 2, 1919, while Harvard beat Boston College 17-0. Though they made only one trip away that year--to Princeton--the band played at every home game thereafter...
...season's high point, the Yale game, the band had 80 members, but 35 of these didn't play. It was a good show, though. During the early winters of the organization's career, two dance bands were formed to travel around the country raising funds, and upon their success depended the band's life the next season...
...most there were 60 regular members during the years to 1929. Sometimes, however, improvisation was necessary. At one game, for instance, violins, borrowed from the dance orchestras, were brought into the stands to play missing clarinet parts...
Although he had graduated, Anderson continued to work with the band, directing and, at times writing and arranging music. For the Dartmouth game in 1932, he made his first arrangement of college tunes in medley form...
Coach Henry Lamar will make only two changes in his opening lineup of last Saturday; "they'll work together much better after the extra practice and one game," said Lamar. He will use few reserves, standing with the squad...