O.K. here is the story that I started earlier about Charlie Johnson and the 1970 Dream. The night before the dream we (Rochester) marched the Waverly show. When the scores were announced, Sky had won the show and were presented the 1st place trophy. Welp, Truman went through the sheets and found a mistake, and the judges agreed there was mistake, and Baltimore should have won the show. So there is a bunch of us drinking with the drumline from NY, you know the usual suspects Ray, Wes, Rocco, and I could have sworn Andy was there but ????(hic)
Truman approaches Winky and demands the trophy be turned over to Baltimore, riiiiight. So things start getting dicey, Lefty intervenes and clears the parking lot of Sky and tells everybody to get on the bus. Well there was a bunch of us that didn't want to miss this show, so we decided to tag along and go to the Dream, the next day. I think we partied that night at a Holiday Inn? in Hasbrouck Heights?? Anyhow, the Skyliners were boiled and we never went to bed.
As my memory, remembers.........during the Dream, Skys hornline was in their company front playing their signature Little Old New York ending heading towards the finish line, Charlie Johnson had the A-section posted just before the finish line. Sky's hornline passes the A-section before Charlie gives the forward-march command. Hence a 1pt penalty. Here are the scores for Waverly and the Dream. And if you notice the Dream scores, there is a 1pt. difference between Hawthorne and New York. Could that be the 1pt penalty??? Of course, this could all be a dream......
1 Yankee Rebels 77.850 2 New York Skyliners 77.600 3 Sunrisers 72.000 4 Hamburg Kingsmen 71.200 5 Rochester Crusaders 68.750 6 Les Diplomates
62.450
The Dream
1 Hawthorne Caballeros 83.300 2 New York Skyliners 82.300 3 Connecticut Hurricanes 80.100 4 Yankee Rebels 79.650 5 Reading Buccaneers 79.550