The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 30, 1958, SECTION TWO, Page Page Fifteen, Image 15
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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
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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
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lion
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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
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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
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whnthe fumes gotas. I
outsatide eneest. hones, and
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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
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. 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
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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
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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
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