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The Aggie Band practkes a
For LS
tonight at 7.
will go by train with the football
team to Baton Rouge where they
are scheduled for a, half-time per
formance in tomorrow night’s grid!
gapie. .. *> ;
This will be the band’s second
dff-the-eampus exhibition for the
current school year. Their first
performance "was at half-time ' in
the A&M-Texas Tech game in San
Antonio, two weeks ago.
•The mid-game marching will be
divided into three phases. The
first of these, "precision drilling,
will consist of the standard Aggie
movements plus a newly developed
silent drill routine.
Patterned after specialties of the
n
The Aggie Band leaves for LSU ance Jvill be the salute to the twof
The cadet musicians
Hem s
From grapli to _
Mir'
which the
-iron,
evoli
drmances
h the Aftgie Band has
. That’s
lution of
for
so famous.
iWhe antics which madera
ch game preface his dc
the band With the rema
iow comes the severest U
announcer’s vocabulary.” dt —
happen. Th;y are the result of
careful pldnr ing and hai-d Work;
The first steps in evolving 1 one
of these intricate formations are
made on a Scale model of a foot4
ball field. Colonel E. V. Adams,
Aggie Band director, forms an idea
of what is to be done and ♦then
carcijlly mips each move on pja-
jpdr.
This paper, an especiall;
ed grid-iror chart, looks
like the graph-paper used in busi-
ness and mathematics. Each divi
sion of the field is marked on' the
chart and tlien further subdivided
into small siquares representing 30
inches on tie field.
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..ith the aid of these squares a prescribed line in the letters
Adams is able to tell exactly how] With script letters and other
many steps and how many: beats of! m ire intricate formations, howevi
music it wil take the band to reach
any given s )ot on the field. After
i working ouf every detail on paper,
r The Bi
tiirte the procesg of putting 1 1 field, he locates himself in relation
to those men near him and then
most direct route tq] move
formation
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thejid^a into practice on the
drill field. ■ „ , ,,
any schools follow the practice
of (mimeographing diagrams for
each member of a band to explain
exactly what he has to do.
process takes \ almost two
weqks. Adams accomplishes the
saniie thing in about 15 minutes py
getting the band on the field
exdlaibing what iq to be done
hoic.
llince the band always marchies;
in h unit ten men in width and 15
ractijcei
e to
finds the
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me i long, it begins each pr
dri 1. ih this formation. (The
membership is actually in exceiss
of 160, but lack of instruments
cpis the marching strength tet
150.),,. |
•'rom a top-floor room in the
ba id dormitory, Adams and the
cadet drum majors spot ^ach mail
in the position he will be required
ostt
from the unit
design.
Not all plans, of course, work out
as well in practice as they did on
paper. In' this case, the idea is
either scrapped or modified:
In formings design on tfie field,
correction must be made for op
tical distortion. Lines of mpn that
run horizontally, itp the spectators’
line of vision have a tendency to
appear shallow and must have
kbotit twice the number 'qf men
.1 that are needed jn a line funning
As
the fi
two
betwi
adjoining.
The Aggie Ba
of the counter
■
uses a variafhj
arch which
members themselves have deslgnat
ed . thb “Lost Indian” counter
march: It accomplishes the some
end as the standard countef-m*i)ch
but is done in a different manner.
It works on the principle that
the baind marching as a unit acjju-
ally consists of several rectangles,
one withip the Other.* Thus, the
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tusk of trying ito describe s,uch
niojrement.: | j] j ' ,•:! j
The preiisiorr and perfection fc
perpendicular (o the line of! vision.
Just what are some- of the for
mations employed ,by the ! band!! 1
In the simple category corjies the
normal right and left turn, the min
strel turn, (and the standard coun- pi n other words, the
ter-march. ■ ■ . , [ j 1 ' “
Ai minstrel turn is, in thb [ words
two odtstde fu«
rear files form] a rectangle;
mop' by 15. Inside this is a
tangle nine by 14.
The; Lost Indian coupter-mj
is dope by revolving
ion and perfeCtl
which the, IblaPid has gained a rfpt
tnjion come ffokn long apd hare
mamm
take in a given formation. In of Colonel Adams, “a matter of
thb case of forming block letters;
th s is a fairly simple procedure
sii ce individual ranks usually form
eri ap assignment must be made
to eabh man individually. When
a member has been spotted on the
changing direction of the band by
having each succeeding file move
dowp its corresponding diagonal.”
'it’s known technically as a mathe
matical turin.
As for the counter-march, it is
merely a matter of reversing the
direction of march by having the
band roafeh back through itself.
tang
... Jen;■.tail
right outside 1 flip do ijo-the-s
and a column right, those in It'
front file march to the! righti
do a column right,| those pjn the
side left file continue jthe nil
with a column right, and the;
file marches to jthe lefjt foil;
by an immediate colurnp fig!
The rectangle therefore, is
volving clock-wise. WhOn th'
have peached fiib posif
opposite that in which
band drill practice W
„ rfst nxi
WUach member knows'
orbughly and the
■; practiced some more.
If, there is* Any indication that
ery phafie of every formation s
nct lpdrfeet, 0 !5 a.m. practice is
Ifild; Jl-here is little or no chance
s, [; i. . : ]|i
this work three hours Of.
r _ r each week plus the va-
is; military aind campus funC*
s fofi which tjhe band is called,
ti
ills efsy to
iWrs
see why the
firs »n well be proud. Th
Mincers! don’t know 1
Mly i,. ■ • I j
schoolls. Facing the LSU stands,
the bijmd will spell out “Tigers’* in
script while playing “Tiger Rag.” I
It will move from this, info the
block letters “TAMC’f from , which
it will plOy ‘The Twelfth Man.”
The final, phase of the Aggie’s
portion of the half-time activiticsj
will be the band’s forming a moy-;
ing “T” pcjfiiendicularly on the
field. The fjT” will traverse the]
field and counter-march back in
itself. The band will : be playin
the “Aggie War Hymn.” • ;j|
Members of the band will
a train for] College Station imnK
diately following the game. The;
will be back at A&M at 10 a.ni,
Sunday. i
Funds fdr this second post-wa
Volunteer Company! and last ( trip to Baton Rouge are being hrq-I
Freshman Drill team, thie I vided from funds appropriatea tb
latest addition to the band routinje | the band! IqiSt April. |The dextt
will be done without the aid of! half-time performance by the band
music or drums. ; wil be at; next week’s A&M-TCU
■ ; The second phase of the perform- game.,
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Moving Van Hauls Instruments
On Band T rek to Baton Rougi
' How would you like to move a
house full Of furniture to Baton
Rouge ^and back over .the week
end? ' ]
That’*.’ just about tije problem
faced by the Aggie band^this week-
I end—and gny other time that they
1 • make an appearance aWay from
the campus. The business of ship
ping'instruments is no small de
tail in planning a band trip.
While the musicians are strug
gling to catch their forty-winks on
ttain headed to LSU, their horns,
d -ums^ music, and other paraphan-
a i t will be headed the same way
v a thb highway/ ],
Band instruments are shipped in
‘Murals Begin;
B QM, A Flight
ok Strongest
j Aggie Intramurals got off
a big Start Wednesday af
ter being rained out Monday.
Four basketball and six tennis
; games were scheduled and all
were playecLexcept one.
Of coursg, it is too early in tihe
yrtt to be able to tell which are
the strongest' teams so the only
determining factor for the sche
dule arrangement was last year’s
outcomes. The senior scheduie-
makeE has tried to distribute the
teams so that no two of the best
-ifill be in the same league. This
action will keep a team that might
be the eventual second place win-
ner from losing put ii^thfe early
" stages of the competition.
^ "Tight Play Wednesday
' In the basketball opener, wo
tight games were played between
K Flight and D Infantry and A
Transportation and the Senior
Company. News Bonner led the
. . Paddlefeet .to a 13-12 edge oiyer
j ' the Air Force despite stellar play
by Bob Moody for K Flight. Fe
lix Copeland led the Seniors to- a
13-12 victory over the T. C.’s by
I .j scoring eight of‘ their thirteen,
points. "■ •
w B.'Quartermaster swamped the
hapless from D Flight in a 17-4
rout led by Sherman Hink. Schuelke
and! Alford were high point men
for the Air Corps.
Nick Holland and Dick High
tower paced the G Flight team to
(See INTRAMURAL, Page 6)
much the samf? manner as fur
niture. An enclosed moving Van
from a local transport company
carries them to anc| from their
destination. This is a far cry from
the days, not top long gone, vl’hen
each' bandsman wa4 responsible-
for getting -his qwn j music-mftkev
to o.Ut of towrt hiarphos.
Tlie van is loaded I by the band
members themselves under the di
rection of the cadet stip^ly officers;
Confusion, is avoided 1 by the use
of a system devised over years ‘of
experience.
I Each instrument Has a prede
termined placfi in tjhe Van. The
cadets form two lines at the rdiar
of the truck and s tja r t feeding
; things down in an orderly fashion].
When it comes tinfi to rethoVe
the instruments, ’the order is re
versed.
Band members reimove theijr
piece, relqck the case, return it to
'the van, ind then lock the vah. In
this way,j there is no chance op los
ing eithep the instru|r ients or the
cases. Ah advantage; of trucking
is that ainy loss or damage is cov
ered by the trucking companies
insurance.
At Corp'Trip marches, the truck
is on h^nd at t|ie poirit of origin to
distribute;. band parajihanalia ahd
t! the far e(ni
also' waiting at
id of the
parade fdute to feceiye the instyU:
Five-0 Club Names
Mrs. Koban Prexy
The Five-0 Club niet in the sol
arium of the 1 college YMCA Thurs
day evening tot the initial gather-
irigi of the 49-50 season. Mrs. Jipi
Hoban, president, was in charge
of the meeting. i \
The next meeting Was announced
for 7:30 p. m. on Thursday, Octo
ber 6 in the solarium. Regular
meetings will be held on the first
and third Thursdays iif each mont'
Members
program
mittee appointed by the presidertt
are Mrs. Jack! Bebinger, chairma
and Meadames Bob Kilgore, H. O.
Myer, Johnnie Reevk, Joe Coulter,
and Cliff Harrel. ; ‘ ' -j >/
Tentative plans Ufire- discussed
for a Halloween paptly; and a wel
coming tea. Mrs. Hqban and Mrs.
Coulter' served tea and qookies to
Mesdanfis Jack Williamson, Hugh
Wallace, Bob Kilgopet Jack Beb
inger, Frank: Neville-; Herb King,
“ " Myer, LeRof “ ‘ ^
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and Mrs. C. T-
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