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POWDER BOWLt 1940.. 1940; these semen are taken f defeated the Delta Delta Delta Doris Nash, Pi Phi star of th o linan ibrary ; copy phooral NASH HEROINE Pi Phi D< By ARM Valley Society Bditor "Carolina coeds trade idle co quetry for real gridiron glamour and quit chasing men to chase pigskins as Tri Delta and PI Beta Phi sisters lay down knit ting to take up football for aid to Britain and Alpha Kappr Gamma's scholarship fund." This was the report of The Gamecock on Nov. 1, 1940. And the next Friday, the girls clashed in a football classic on Melton Field. Carolina was in the newsl Deward Brittain, one of the Tri Dolt coaches, has been given credit for originating the idea of the co-ed foo:,ball game as a means of raising r mcy. The . price of adnilssloi to the game 4 was $ .16 and tickets were sold mainly by AKG. Al Grygo, a varsity star, and sem---se% sport headq f, colka yoI Wa' 0 Abovem e (mn . Aoveesescene fauadlar to thee row the Powder Bowl'of that year il sorodty by a seore of 6.0. In the I une, who scored the wining touehdo phy by Roem Pasons) efeats TrI Paul Leaque assisted Brittain in guiding the Tri Delta team, and Jim McKinney, DeWitt Arrow' smith, and Tommy Attaway taught the Pi Phi.lassies. The girls went thfough a pe riod of training such as has never been seen - at Carolina. Special diets were planned for the girls by their determined. - to - win coaches. The talk of Sims for weeks was the game that was destined to make history in the records of our beloved university. Friday at 8 p.m. the two teams appeated on Melton Field dressed in bright, unpadded "uniforms" with the accompaniment of loud cheers led by energetic faculty members. Male sponsors, proudly carrying their . posies, watched -eagerly from the sidelines. The Gamecoek had reported uarters rabia's ang Sn ad lion ae e who were students at USC in N which the P1 Beta Phi sorority wottom left hand corner is Mims in. (Photo eourtesy of the Caro Delta 6-0 before the game that, "The fracas may turn into a punting and passing duel between Pi Phi Sara Rushton and Tri Delt Jane Crum. These two well-known athletes will oppose each othef from full back positions." Just how much passing and punting went on I don't know, but it is fact that early in the game Doris Nash, Pi Phi halfback, caught a pass and ran 60 yards for a touch down. It was the only score of the evening. Soon after her spec tacular run Miss Nash was side lined with a turned ankle. National Interest The game attracted nation wide interest. The Gameock re ported in the Nov. 15 issue, "Every big-time. news-gathering organization in the country was here to take pictures of the game for their newspapers. Ansociated Press flow a photographer from Atlanta; Wide World Photon had a local representative send over 80 pictures to New York; Inter national News Service had a pho tographer here, and Paramount News was represented with a movie photographer getting real action shots for the news reels." Every large newspaper In the South carried pictures of the game. The stars, Doris Nash, Kat Edgerton, Sara Rushton, Jane Crum, Marine Forbes, and La vinia Lyles, became celeb,rities with their pictures "plastered" over the newspapers. These girls received much fan mail, one fan even suggested a game between Navy andI P1 Phi; he was a mid shipman. 1945 Revival The Powder Bowl was not played again until 1945 when the game was renevied to raise money for McKissiek Scholarship Fund. Again the contenders were Tri Dolt and P1 PhI. Again the vic tory belonged to P1 PhI; Dale Hood scored and Jo Seidman kicked the extra point to make the final score 7-0 in favor of P1 Phi. Something else apneared .to MY CLWSEST SHM "M7 eohsetsa,e P at iy, 1968 E tsmp~atwethat d uight down es tms at 130 aked out, hit .Ud. al..g u, helast waseo See lOURtif Ushgeve-with a tae you n e. to!aes yea eM. A at shetb t., the 'em Colgate Unsta Caroips Mercer Is' Charter Member By Staff Writer Cheers, Crises, and Contro-' versy-that's the story of our University- band. The -Carolina musical organization has gone. through the cycle of up to down and back again many times in its 31-year history. The first Carolina band was formed in 1921 with J. 0. Lan ham, a senior law student, as its director. Eleven men turned out for the first practice session, and, by the end of the season, there were 24 members. Mr. Frank Welbourne, treasurer of the University,. was a charter member of the band and he re calls that the group was com posed of students who just liked to play and who "made more noise than music." Welbourne, also a student at the time, played the slide trombone. Prof. C. F. Mercer of the Physics Department was also a member of the first Carolina band. He was teaching at the University when the group was organized and he played with it in its formative days. Early Years Those early'years were diffi cult ones for the band was con stantly facing bankruptcy. The University did not make alloca tions for the band and each- in dividual was forced to provide his own instrument. It was in a state of quiet desperation per haps that a 1924 Gamecock jour nalist wrote "Every man who can play an instrument of any de scription is heartily welcomed into the organization and any man who cannot play but desires to learn and is willing to put hard work in practice will be taught free of charge." The writer added that the band espe cially needed ". . . cornetists, al toists, drummers ... and a man to play the helicon bass." By'1927, the band had become more stable. It was now a part of the Carolina Department of Music, organied in 1925, and the band had almost 50 members. They played all of the shows at the State Fair that year as well as appearing at the Big Thurs day game. "Jazz Age" As a part of the Music Depart ment, the band also played con certs for the students during the Spring semester and were a fea ture at the annual May Day pro gram. The spirit of the "Jazz catch the eye of the spectators this year. Kappa Delta appeared with a drill team complete with midshipman's hats and white gloves. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, social fraternity, helped with the sale of peanuts, cakes, and pro grams which revealed the play er's names, home town, height, weight, and color of hair and eyes. The following year the third game of the series was played. And again the invincible P1 Phi's came through with victory, this time 20-0. The game has not been played since, but if you see Tri Delt studying the plays too closely at a football game, watch out, they may be planning re venge! was at Isdan-peIMa in 193.," Lys myht *adteexhaust fumes ~1pe4wa. Iwas going tnes the whnthe fumes gotas. I outsatide eneest. hones, and bat a way to hp * matee.what ae ntI Shave a Band GAMECOCKS GO ABROAD. with the USC marching band, w4 toured Europe and were featured tesy of the Caroliniana lAbrary; Age" is reflected in the selections on a 1928 band concert; inrluded on the program are two Sousa marches, "The Light Cavalry Overture" by Von Suppe, and "a variety of jazz favorites, includ ing a mirimba solo." Depression days curbed the band's activities somewhat due too shrinking allocations and de creased student enrollment, but the band continued to play. It ap peared at the State Fair again in 1938 and broadcast its Fair grounds concerts over local sta tion WIS. However, there were some complications in that ap pearance as Indicated in The Gamecock: "The management (of the Fair) was unable to dis tribute the uniforms usually worn as it was known how many would be needed." Big Thursday The next year, there was some improvement. The band appeared in a new set of uniforms and marched- -at -the-Big,hursday game with over 50 members. The .Gamecock described the show: ". . . during the half of the game, the members of the band, resplehdent in their garnet, gold, and black uniforms, formed the familiar 'C' formation." Until 1941, the band continued to field large, consistently good bands. They traveled to ball games all over the South and we're highly thought of every where. During the war years, of KD CORSETTE , . . During Delta sorority formsed a drill tea function of the drill team was feated Delta Delta Delta In the fraternity sold peanuts, eakes, au the sale of tickets. (Photo conrl KD Ham By Ann Stokes' Staff Writer Marching onto the field during halt' time of U.S.C.'s 1946 Powder Bowl in pre cision that would have made any y KI 'U-S t Ks u L .............2eses s Forin . The Carolina jazz band, "Tbe G re a favorite during the Roaring T at the famous Deauville Casino on 21 copy photography by Ros Parsons: course, band activities were al most completely discontinued. After the war, the band was back in operation. It had 45 members and allocations were in creased so that, In the fall of 1948, the band again was able to appear on the field with a new set of uniforms, this time, crim son, grey, and gold. To Chapel Hill The purchase of uniforms ex hausted the band's treasury so that there were no funds for out ef-town trips to football games. The ambitious band members overcame that by sponsoring a ball game between the Univer sity J. V. team and the Fort Jackson "Red Devils." The Fort ALL-AMERLC Selects Memb( The ALIAMERICAN Chorus will undertake another goodwill Concert tour of Europe -nat summer. Leaving New York on July 2, the 100-voice chorus will appear in concert in nearly 30 major cities. As in the past, the group's ap pearances will be sponsored by various organizations abroad. These include U. S. Information Agencies, Armed Forces enter tainment divisions, local govern ments, civic and cultural socie the war and during the days of the in eomplete with mlmMhpunen's haui o perforan on the night of the P.w second contest of this kind in the dprg....;,pha Kappa am a esy of the Caroliniana Library; cep Drill Te a sergeant envious were the Corsettes, the University's first women's drill team, composed of the members of Kappa Delta sorority. These coeds, dressed in their jaunty black coats, thing metal oR SwuIDI -NE........ uedi.'21 smecoeks," not to be confused wentles. For two su=ers they ie French Riviera. (Phto cour. Jackson 11 won, but the Univer sity made profit enough to send the band to Chapel Hill for the North Carolina game. In more recent years, the band has continued to provide the en. tertainment at halftime every fall, lead the pep rally parades, and present concerts for the stu dents. Recently, the band pur chased another new set of uni form's, the third in its history. Band Directors during the last decade were Mr. Louis Fink, Mr. R. H. Zimmerman (1952-1955), and Mr. Donald L. Banschbach (1956). The present Band Director is Mr. Pat Garnett, and the band enrollment this year is about 60. AN Chorus ,rs For Tour ties, and local music organia tions. The chorus will-also ap ~P'Wf Wf radf6-"~id~ sIe~ innet works in all the countries visited. Membership in the cherus Is open to all persons who have had successful choral experience. Singers are chosen solely on the basis of vocal talent, musical ability, and desirable character traits. Persons wishing to join the forthcoming tour may obtain information from the ALL AMERICAN Chorus office at 825 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 1945 Powder Bowl, the Kappa and white elewes. 'Ihe am dee Bowl, whom Pi Boe PhI do. hlssery .t .or University. SAE - -eeay...iy h.l,.d wath y phaspeaphy by RossI Pemso) am '45 borrowed midshipmen's hats and white gloves, became familiar to all Carolina after the display of their crack drill team in the festivities that year. Among the coeds partici.. ~ting in the marching were te Boykin, Julia Bull, Shiney Dial, Jeune Good, Marianne Guerry, Anne Jon Brooks Mrk),Lib Eti 60on, Eleanor Mecall. Nassy Anne Derby Times