Band Plays at All Home Grid Games

Title

Band Plays at All Home Grid Games

Description

Commentary by Daily Nebraskan in the 1927 football edition on the copious amounts of practices, rallies, games, and university functions that the band members attend, as well as mention of uniforms.

Creator

Daily Nebraskan

Source

University of Nebraska, Library Media Services, 38/1/2 Mfilm AP2 D355, Mar. 6, 1927 - Feb. 5, 1929

Date

1927, Dec. 9

Text

BAND PLAYS AT ALL HOME GRID GAMES
Organization Forms Letter Between Halves: Appears at all Pep Meetings

By Leon Larimer
With the sole exception of the football team, the University R. O. T. C. band is about the busiest organization on the campus during the football season. The band plays for rallies and pep meetings, home games, broadcasts rallies over the University radio station, entertains the crowds at the games with music and stunts, and drills three nights a week.
Another job of the band is to parade from the downtown business section to the stadium before each home game. Rain or shine, the band never fails to parade before the games. Even when it rains or snows at games, the men cover their instruments with their slickers or overcoats and “carry on.”
The band is always on hand at rallies to play the familiar tunes which have instilled vim into followers of the pigskin sport for several generations, as well as to play for torchlight parades, serenades for visiting teams, or sendoffs for Nebraska’s players.
Nebraska alumni and Husker football fans all over the country while “listening in” on their radios, have been able to hear the cheers and football songs broadcast by the bandsmen over the University radio station. These radio rallies which have been a feature of the past, were usually presented just before each game of the year and were a sort of substitute rally for Nebraskans in various parts of the country who could not attend the student rallies held on the eve of games.
Band Forms “N”
For the past several years the band has formed the initial letters of visiting football teams while marching in front of the stadium between halves. Besides this, the band learns the school songs of the visitors and plays at the games. Practicing these letters and songs, as well as the familiar “N” which the band always forms between the halves at the games, entails a great deal of work, and much of the time given over to drill each week is devoted to learning these stunts.
It has been the custom in the past to send the band on one or more trips each year when the Husker warriors play away from home. This year the bandsmen accompanied the team to Manhattan. This was the only trip the band had this year.
Although ninety men were enrolled on the roster of the band this season, only seventy could play with the organization, due to a lack of a sufficient number of uniforms. It is hoped that more uniforms will be available in the future. Other bands in the Valley have bands with as many as 120 members, but the R. O. T. C. band is seriously handicapped by a lack of uniforms, limiting the membership of men that can be accepted.
“This has been a very successful season for the band,” stated Prof. William T. Quick, director of the organization. “The men were unusually well drilled this year, due, no doubt, to the new ruling which calls for at least one semester of drill before a freshman can enter the band. Then, too, the men now coming into the R. O. T. C. band are, as a rule, better prepared to play, because many of them play for a semester in the Fine Arts band before entering.”
The band generally presents two concerts during the second semester each year, and after the football season, commences its rehearsals of concert numbers. It also plays for home basketball games. The first concert will probably be given the latter part of January, Director Quick announced. The second concert will be present later in the year, he said.

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Daily Nebraskan, “Band Plays at All Home Grid Games,” Nebraska U, accessed March 28, 2024, https://unlhistory.unl.edu/items/show/353.

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