1969-10-11 - Harvard
Pregame
[Band lines up in end zone, on cue from the Drum Major begin]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Cleverest Band in the World, the Columbia University Marching Band.
[pause]
J. Richard Goodman, Head Manager
J. Albert Bergeret, Drum Major
and featuring the Band's new rhythm section, on their own devices.
[Band marches (?) out, does first half of Pregame, faces the Harvard Stands]
The Band now says HI to Harvard.
[Band salutes Harvard, turns and faces the Columbia stands, forms LION and plays Roar]
[Band Runs off field]
Halftime
[Band lines up in end zone. On cue from drum major begin.]
Ladies and Gentlemen: the Columbia University Pallbearers,
William Sloan Coffin Head Manager
Edgar Allen Poe Drum Major
featuring the Marquis de Sade on the rack and with a cast of thousands, presents a salute to the wonderful world of martyrdom.
[Band marches out. Play When the Saints]
Nathan Hale, America's greatest martyr annd the first in a long line of revolting Yalies, stuck his neck out for the American cause. Finding himself at the end of his rope, Hale did manage to cough up these lasst words, 'No noose is good noose. UGH!"
[Form Noose, Play Keep Me Hangin' On]
Catherine the Great, known throughout Rusaia as the Little Mother, was one of the great martyrs for love. Hoping to expand ,the circumference of her amorous experience, she left the fertile plains Of Russia for the largely untested regions of Cambridge, Mass. The Harvard boys were disappointing, as usual, and Catherine was advised to get a horse. The Band now forms the horse's tail.
[Form Horse's Tail, Play Satisfaction]
Searching through antiquity, one finds a group of martyrs who had a heavy cross to bear. We now taka you back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the Coliseum scoreboard read: Lions 22, Christian Martyrs 0. Commenting on his team's loss, Coach Matthew stated that the boys were unable to establish a running game.
[Form Arena, Play Roar, Lion Roar]
However, none of these martyrs can hold a torch to that glow1ng figure in French history, Joan of Arc. Quick to temper, but slow to burn, Miss Arc never fully realized what was at stake until it was too late. The band now forms a "French Fry."
[Form French Fry, Play Light My Fire]
[On cue from Drum Major]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Columbia College Alma Mater.
[Form C, Play Sans Souci]