Band is Present in All Kinds of Weather at NU

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Band is Present in All Kinds of Weather at NU

Description

The 1928 Football edition of the Daily Nebraskan highlights the band's many trips accompanying the team.

Creator

Daily Nebraskan

Source

University of Nebraska, Library Media Services, 38/1/2 Mfilm AP2 D355

Date

1928, Dec 14

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BAND IS PRESENT IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER AT N.U.
Organization is One of Most Active on Campus Through Whole School Year

TRIPS MADE IN 1928

Group Journeys to Lawrence and West Point During Football Season

By Leon Larimer
Whether it is a football game, rally, torchlight parade or sendoff for the team, there is one organization on the campus which is always on hand to keep things lively. That is the University R. O. T. C. band.
No matter if the rain is pouring down over the football fans huddled in the stadium, or a good old fashioned Nebraska blizzard is howling over the field, the band will be found in its special section in front of the east stadium, ready to play “U Three on the touch down” or to lend ninety-odd lusty voices in a cheer for the team.
Band Has Many Duties
The R. O. T. C. band, with the sole exception of the football team, is the busiest organization on the campus. The bandsmen play for all home games, football rallies, basketball games, radio rallies, military parades and reviews, besides parading the downtown business section before each football game.
The radio rallies are broadcast over the university station proceeding football games for the benefit of Nebraska alumni and people over the state who can not be present at the regular student rallies. Cornhusker fighting tunes and yells are usually a part of the program and short “pep” speeches are broadcast.
Band is Largest in History
This year the band has the largest enrollment in its history, according to Rollin Barnes, captain, who stated that one hundred names are on the roster. Although all members could not be uniformed, due to scarcity of equipment, ten extra uniforms were secured in order that the band might have eighty-five uniformed men for official appearances.
The extra ten uniforms were made possible by the generosity of graduating cadet officers who turned in their uniforms to the military stores department.
Make Trip to New York
Besides all its activities on the campus this year the band accompanied the team on two football trips, one to Lawrence, Kan, the other to New York when the Cornhuskers played the Army team November 24.
The West Point trip was one of the most ambitious projects the band has ever undertaken. A benefit ball was given in the Coliseum Homecoming night, October 37, from which $500 was earned. The remainder of the $5,000 which the trip cost was made up by popular subscription and by sale of band script at one dollar per block.
The band script will be redeemable at concerts this winter and at Kosmet Klub afternoon dances.
Fifty Men on Trip
The entire band went to Lawrence, but only fifty were taken to New York because of the enormous expense involved. While in New York, the bandsmen paraded at West Point, and played for the Husker Cadet tilt, as well as playing at several rallies held in New York City.
The cadet musicians were guests of the Nebraska alumni association at a dinner and were taken on several sight-seeing trips while in Manhattan.
Quick Thanks Boosters
“We are proud of our band,” stated Prof. W. T. Quick, director of the organization. “The band has now travelled from coast to coast, having made the trip to Seattle with the football team in 1926. The band has had an unusually successful season, and I wish to thank the student body, local business men, the alumni and people over the state…[illegible] responded so loyally when we launched our campaign for the New York trip.”
Concert Season Opens
Besides playing at all home basketball games this winter, the band has a tentative schedule calling for three public concerts which will be given in January, February, and March.
Intensive rehearsal has already begun and the inaugural concert will probably be given shortly after the first of the year.

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Daily Nebraskan, “Band is Present in All Kinds of Weather at NU,” Nebraska U, accessed March 28, 2024, https://unlhistory.unl.edu/items/show/387.

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