Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators at Harvard football games were entertained by the University Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. In 1919, with the season already underway, a group of musicians decided that Soldiers Field fans needed a little more pop and a hand might add the needed virility to the then all-male cheering section...
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...
During that first season it shared playing time with the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, which had combined under one management, and the Glee Club, all sitting in the same section...
Juniors have filled up section 35 between the 20 and 30-yard lines, and sophomores yesterday bought out most of section 36. Freshmen will find only one section still left this morning on the playing side of the end zone. When this, number 37, is filled up, the Class of '53 will get seats at the other end of the field in section 27, and possibly in section 41 of the steel stands...
...competitions will be split four ways, into feature, art, photography, and business, and the executive competitions will be run along similar lines, according to Feeney. Freshman members of the board, excepting business board men, would probably work primarily on the Freshman section out of choice, but there is no strict limitation of Board members' activities in the organization...