dc oldtimer Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Just pecking away at fromthepressbox I noticed there was a show with a date of "March 1976". March? http://www.fromthepressbox.com/1976seasonscores.htm First, is this right? Second, assuming this was a full show on a field, is this the earliest a season has ever started? I know there were some judged standstills "back in the day" during the winter. I understand that is was in California and the weather could allow this but..... .. and please, no rants about how short the season is these days. It is called beating a dead horse over and over and over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornsUp Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Another record-breaker: this also lists the Pinole Princemen competing, five years after they folded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankBeMe Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 It's possible for shows to have happened in March. In 69 we did a standstill contest in April. In 72 we did a few small corps standstill contests in January and February. We also had our first field contests the second weekend in May that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankBeMe Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Another record-breaker: this also lists the Pinole Princemen competing, five years after they folded. Pinole Princemen?? There's one that has California state VFW being held in Milwaukee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaboom Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Up to about 1980, every March there was a standstill competition at the National Orange Show in San Bernardino in the old Swing Auditorium. It kicked off drum corps season in Southern California. First there was a parade in the morning and then the drum corp standstill. BTW, the Princemen was a SoCal corps from Redlands just east of San Bernardino. Back in the day, there was a very nice group of corps in Southern California providing competition all summer long. And when combined with Northern California, it was a fairly strong circuit. It just did not have the publicity that help east coast thrive. Kaboom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincoln Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Looking at the prelims/finals scores for '76, what the hell happened to Guardsmen at Finals? Prelims: 83.75 Finals: 74.25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boo Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Looking at the prelims/finals scores for '76, what the hell happened to Guardsmen at Finals? Prelims: 83.75 Finals: 74.25 Guardsmen were the last corps of prelims, which was held the same day of finals. All the top corps from the previous year were slated on Friday. The end of Saturday afternoon (when all corps were still in one class) was incredibly hot. When Guardsmen made it into finals, they had but a handful of hours to turn around and come back out to perform in finals. The next year, 1977, saw the top corps from the year before go on the final day of prelims, which was one day before finals. (CorpsReps has prelims listed only for one day, the day before finals, but it was split back then.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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