Harvard 2019
Harvard at Princeton
October 26th, 2019
Princeton wins 30-24
Band Centennial Game
Pregame:
Sideline POV
360 Video
Definitely not responsible for Prohibition, it’s the Princeton Uuuuuuniversity Band!
[Band marches on to Princeton Cannon Song]
Now that we’ve reached the ripe old age of 100, the band would like to look back on our fabled, “completely ‘veritas’” history. There are some disputes about our origins. The standard telling has that the band was founded in 1919 as Article 441 of the Treaty of Versailles (the other delegates thought America hadn’t suffered enough during the war). Others maintain that the band was founded by wandering 13th century druids, who invented the first sousaphone and discovered the plaid sheep roaming the sweeping plains of Central Jersey. Forming a plaid sheep, the band now takes you back through a time warp to our mythic past.
[Band forms a sheep and plays Time Warp]
Other events from the band’s colorful history include: providing mood music for NASA as they faked the moon landing, inspiring the invention of tweezers, and leading the final charge of Australia’s Great Emu War (on the side of the Emus, of course). Now, just as we did at Nixon’s second inauguration, the band forms a double-double rotating P!
[Band forms a Double Double Rotating P and plays Going Back to Nassau Hall]
Run away band, the Australian Army is back, and they want a rematch!
Halftime:
One hundred years young and still as immature as the day it was founded, it’s the Princeton University Band!
Would you look this good at 100 years old? This year marks the Princeton University Band’s one hundredth year of rambling round the campus, full of jollity and slightly cacophonous music.
Starting out as a more boring (*cough*) traditional marching band, the band discovered humor and the joys of tacky clothing in the ‘50s and quickly became what we are today: a plaid-clad horde of rascals supplying light entertainment and mild annoyance to all who want it, and all who don’t. Dedicated to the idea that all people, no matter how tone-deaf, can have a good time playing music, we strive to demonstrate that discipline has no place in a marching band. And for that matter, neither does marching! From garnering concerns by pummeling Santa Claus to accidentally brawling with military cadets at the Citadel, we’ve done it all. Celebrating ourselves, the band plays 100 Orange Balloons.
[Band forms 100 and plays 99 Luftballons]
You know what else happened 100 years ago? The great Boston molasses flood. It was a wall of molasses 25 feet high. That’s almost as high as a Harvard student’s ego. Evidenced by the Harvard Band’s briefly record-setting 12 foot 6 inch conductor’s baton, giant tuba, and enormous bass drum, it seems that Harvard students have a problem with overcompensation. Is it really a bass drum? Or is the ugly truth just that it’s a drum head covering a vastly huge tire? (1:23)
[Band plays Also Sprach Zarathustra and flashes: VASTLY HUGE TIRE, THE UGLY VERITAS, GO GET EM TIGERS!]
Run away band, here’s to the next hundred! CLINK
October 26th, 2019
Princeton wins 30-24
Band Centennial Game
Pregame:
Sideline POV
360 Video
Definitely not responsible for Prohibition, it’s the Princeton Uuuuuuniversity Band!
[Band marches on to Princeton Cannon Song]
Now that we’ve reached the ripe old age of 100, the band would like to look back on our fabled, “completely ‘veritas’” history. There are some disputes about our origins. The standard telling has that the band was founded in 1919 as Article 441 of the Treaty of Versailles (the other delegates thought America hadn’t suffered enough during the war). Others maintain that the band was founded by wandering 13th century druids, who invented the first sousaphone and discovered the plaid sheep roaming the sweeping plains of Central Jersey. Forming a plaid sheep, the band now takes you back through a time warp to our mythic past.
[Band forms a sheep and plays Time Warp]
Other events from the band’s colorful history include: providing mood music for NASA as they faked the moon landing, inspiring the invention of tweezers, and leading the final charge of Australia’s Great Emu War (on the side of the Emus, of course). Now, just as we did at Nixon’s second inauguration, the band forms a double-double rotating P!
[Band forms a Double Double Rotating P and plays Going Back to Nassau Hall]
Run away band, the Australian Army is back, and they want a rematch!
Halftime:
One hundred years young and still as immature as the day it was founded, it’s the Princeton University Band!
Would you look this good at 100 years old? This year marks the Princeton University Band’s one hundredth year of rambling round the campus, full of jollity and slightly cacophonous music.
Starting out as a more boring (*cough*) traditional marching band, the band discovered humor and the joys of tacky clothing in the ‘50s and quickly became what we are today: a plaid-clad horde of rascals supplying light entertainment and mild annoyance to all who want it, and all who don’t. Dedicated to the idea that all people, no matter how tone-deaf, can have a good time playing music, we strive to demonstrate that discipline has no place in a marching band. And for that matter, neither does marching! From garnering concerns by pummeling Santa Claus to accidentally brawling with military cadets at the Citadel, we’ve done it all. Celebrating ourselves, the band plays 100 Orange Balloons.
[Band forms 100 and plays 99 Luftballons]
You know what else happened 100 years ago? The great Boston molasses flood. It was a wall of molasses 25 feet high. That’s almost as high as a Harvard student’s ego. Evidenced by the Harvard Band’s briefly record-setting 12 foot 6 inch conductor’s baton, giant tuba, and enormous bass drum, it seems that Harvard students have a problem with overcompensation. Is it really a bass drum? Or is the ugly truth just that it’s a drum head covering a vastly huge tire? (1:23)
[Band plays Also Sprach Zarathustra and flashes: VASTLY HUGE TIRE, THE UGLY VERITAS, GO GET EM TIGERS!]
Run away band, here’s to the next hundred! CLINK
