The Yale Precision Marching Band has made a tradition of setting fire to the tops of the bells of their sousaphones, including in the fall of 1992 when sousaphones served as the " candles " of a " wedding cake " formed by the band when two band alumni were married during a halftime show.

Members of the Yale Precision Marching Band who act on the field are called " squids.

Both male and female college residents strip down to their underwear ( some brave seniors remove all their clothing during The Game ) to accompaniment by the Yale Precision Marching Band, which formerly played The Stripper or Sweet Child o ' Mine but now chooses different tunes from game to game.

It was subsequently under the control of the Yale Precision Marching Band which used it in the 2006 Princeton halftime show.

Magnificent Mugsy Rangoon, a Bulldog from Hamden, Connecticut, was picked by a five person panel for his gregarious personality, large size ( 69 pounds ), good health, and his ability to deal with the raucous Yale Precision Marching Band.

The Yale Precision Marching Band ( affectionately known as the YPMB, or more simply The Band, for short ) is the official marching band of Yale University.

In 1992, before the combined playing of the " Star-Spangled Banner ", the Harvard marching band attempted to " X-out " the Yale Precision Marching Band while the Yale band stood in its traditional Y formation ; however, the Yale band caught wind of this plan and, as the Harvard band marched onto the field, shifted its formation into a large H, thus making Harvard X itself out.

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He was also a distinguished orator and after-dinner speaker ; author: Orations and After Dinner Speeches ( 1890 ), Life and Later Speeches ( 1894 ), Orations, Addresses and Speeches ( eight volumes ) ( 1910 ), Speeches and Addresses on the threshold of Eighty ( 1912 ), Addresses and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-two ( 1916 ), Speeches and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-four ( 1918 ), My Memories of Eighty Years and Marching On ( 1922 ); Miscellaneous Speeches on the Threshold of Ninety-two ( 1925 ); contributed a " My Autobiography " in 1922, and an article to the 50th Anniversary Supplement of the Yale Daily News entitled " An Optimistic Survey " in 1928 ; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut Society of the Society of the Cincinnati, Holland Society, Huguenot Society, New England Society, France-America Society, New York Historical Society, St. Augustine ( Fla .) Historical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, National Horse Show, Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and St. Thomas ' ( Episcopal ) Church, New York ; made life member of Lawyers ' Club of New York in 1918 ; honorary member New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

The drum major marched out by himself as the announcer gravely stated, " For the first time anywhere, the Yale University Invisible Marching band forms ...

(" At Yale, Wedding Band Takes On a New Meaning ", New York Times, October 10, 1992.

It was founded in 1829 by the Illinois Band, students from Yale University who traveled westward to found new colleges.

Band members refer to themselves as " The Members Of ", which is derived from their introduction at Yale events.

(" At Yale, Wedding Band Takes On a New Meaning ", New York Times, October 10, 1992.

Following his retirement, the Bexley High School Band is currently under the direction of Andrew Johnson with Assistant Director William Yale Manchester.

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The Virginia Pep Band is a student-run band at the University of Virginia ( UVa ), officially known as The Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor / Outdoor Precision (?

His personal favourite instrument was a Fender Precision bass, which he played in both the Terry Young Band and in Bournemouth band, the Interns.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

The Marching and Cycling Band HHK from Haarlem ( the Netherlands ) is one of the few marching bands around the world which also performs on bicycles.

The Columbia University Marching Band tells jokes during the campus tradition of Orgo Night.

On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam — which is often on the first day of finals — at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying.

During the team's time in Baltimore, the Colts had the Baltimore Colts ' Marching Band, which was left behind when the team moved to Indianapolis.

As the horses are paraded before the grandstands, the University of Louisville Marching Band plays Stephen Foster's " My Old Kentucky Home ," a tradition which began in 1924.

* Vikingland Band Festival Parade Marching Championship

The Southern University Marching Band was also featured during the halftime show, playing " Get Ready ", and several New Orleans jazz standards with Hirt, and Lionel Hampton.

The show featured the Michigan Marching Band and the crew of Apollo 17 who exactly one month earlier had been the final humans to date to leave the Moon.

The halftime show, featuring Woody Herman and the Michigan Marching Band along with The Citrus College Singers and Andy Williams, was titled " Happiness Is ".

The pregame festivities, which paid tribute to George Halas, featured the University of Florida Fightin ' Gator Marching Band and the Florida State University Marching Chiefs.

The pregame show held before the game was titled " Georgia Music Makers " and featured performances by the rap music duo Kris Kross, the rock band The Georgia Satellites, country musician Charlie Daniels, and the Morehouse College Marching Band.

Singers Tina Turner and Travis Tritt along with the Georgia Tech Marching Band and the Georgia Mass Choir performed during the show.

** The Michigan Marching Band ( then called the Varsity band ) debuts Script Ohio at the Michigan versus Ohio State game in Columbus.

The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band " Block P "

In 1907, the first formation on a football field was the " Block P " created by Paul Spotts Emrick, director of the Purdue All-American Marching Band.

These shows normally consists of three to five musical pieces accompanied by formations rooted in origin from " Patterns in Motion ", a book penned by one-time Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band assistant band director William C. " Bill " Moffit, who would later become bandmaster of Purdue University All-American Marching Band and University of Houston Spirit of Houston.

Examples of these types of college bands include Bethune-Cookman University " Marching Wildcats ", Grambling State University's " World-Famed Tiger Marching Band ", Jackson State University's " Sonic Boom of the South ", the " Ohio University Marching 110 ", Florida A & M University's " Marching 100 ", Tennessee State University's " Aristocrat of Bands ", and Southern University's " The Human Jukebox ".