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Started sending these to Ron for srcorps.com but decided to post them here. Makes it easier for me as I can correct typos, easier for Ron as I'm sure he's busy. And if anyone has questions or sees a problem, hope they can be resolved.

Following are from the history of a local corps I found. Some scores in the history are already at www.srcorps.com and are not included here.

PS - Ron see my PM regard 1949 Hershey show. :lol:

1947 PA State American Legion

Class "C" (Parade) Aug 9, 1947

1 Hanover Legion 81.75

2 Central City Legion 77.50

3 Hamburg Legion 69.75

Hanover VFW Corps Show

June 24, 1950

Sheppard-Myers Field - Hanover, PA (attd: 4,000)

1 Reilly Raiders (VFW National champs) 92.05

2 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore 91.76

3 Archer Epler Musketeers 90.06

4 Highlanders - Burlington 82.75

5 York 80.07

6 Henry Houston Post 76.85

* Con Edison and Imhoff were compete but arrived too late

1950 PA American Legion State Championships

Philadelphia, PA - Municipal Stadium

Class "A"

1 Imhoff Post

2 Houston Post

3 York Post

Class "B"

1 Hanover

2 Bollman Post - Lebanon (1949 "B" Champs)

3 Fost Post - McKeesport

Class "D" (Juniors)

1 McKall Post

2 Bracken Post - Bristol

3 Upper Darby Post

1951 Parade of Champions

June 7, 1951

Hanover, PA - Sheppard-Myers Field

1 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore 81.10

2 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg 74.00

3 White Roses - York 73.50

4 Patriots - Westminster 62.80

Exhibitions:

Kenwood Cadets - Baltimore

Bears - Hanover

Eastern States Championship

July 7, 1951 - Hersey, PA (Hershey Stadium)

1 Reilly Raiders

2 Archer Epler Musketeers

3 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore

4 Imhof Post - Philadelphia

5 Hanover Bears

Pen-Mar Show july 28, 1951

Mechanicsburg, PA

1 York White Roses

2 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore

3 Imhof Thunderbirds

4 Hanover Bears

5 Hershey Choclatiers

6 Westminster Patriots

1951 PA American Legion State Chapionships

Pittsburgh, PA

Class "A"

1 Henry Houston Post 90.20

Class "B"

1 Hanover Bears 82.06

2 Rochester Post 68.04

Penn-Mar Show

August 24, 1951

1 Baltimore Yankee Rebels 88.10

2 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg 87.70

3 Hanover Bears 81.50

4 Chocolatiers - Hershey 78.10

5 Patriots - Westminster 74.50

Exhibition: York White Roses 87.70

Pen-Mar Show

Sept 1, 1951

Waynesbror, PA

1 Baltimore Yankee Rebels

2 York White Roses

3 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg

4 Hershy Chocoaltiers

5 Bears - Hanover

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Part 2 of 2 :lol:

Parade of Champions 1952

Hanover, PA - Sheppard Myers Field

1 York White Roses 91.40

2 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore 90.60

3 Westshoremen - Wormleysburg 88.15

Westinster, MD Show July 31, 1952

1 Baltimore Yankee Rebels 87.30

2 Westsminster Patriots 80.40

3 Hanover Bears 78.50

1952 PA American Legion Championship

Philadelphia, PA

1 Hershey choclatiers 89.76

2 Milton Keystoners 86.51

3 Tyrone Guard 85.45

4 Hanover Bears 83.95

York Show August 16, 1952

1 Reilly Raiders 92.95

2 Baltimore Yankeer Rebels 91.06

3 Imhoff Thunderbirds 90.50

4 Westshoremen Wormleysburg 88.40

5 Homewood Post - Pittsburgh 85.20

6 Hershey Choclatiers 85.15

7 Hanover Bears 81.60

1953 PA American Legion State Championship

July 31, 1953 Pittsburgh, PA

Class "B"

1 Milton Keystoners 87.26

2 Hershey Choclatiers 84.38

3 Tyrone Guard 81.11

4 Hanover Bears 80.40

5 Bangor Yellow Jackets 78.41

1953 Parade of Champions

Hanover, PA - Sheppard-Myers Field

1 Westshoremen - Wormleysburg 81.55

2 Imhof Thunderbirds 77.80

3 Homewood (Pittsburgh) Rockets 77.25

4 Baltimore Yankee Rebels 76.00

5 Baltimre Kenwood Cavaliers 74.35

6 York White Roses 72.45

7 Hershey Chocolatiers 67.70

8 Milton Keystoners 64.50

Exhibition: Hanover Bears

1954 PA American Legion State Championships

Philaadelphia, PA - Temple Stadium (attd: 14,000)

Class "A"

1 Archer-Eplar Musketeers

2 Reilly Raiders

3 Homewood Rockets

4 Imhof Thunderbirds

Class "B"

1 York White Roses

2 Williamsport Black Eagles

3 Hershey Chocolatiers

4 Millersburg Bonnie-Scots

5 Keystoners Milton

6 Bangor Yellowjackets

7 Hanover Bears

8 Tyrone Guard

9 Slatingon corps

Pen-Mar Show

Aug 22, 1954

Hanover, PA - Sheppard Myers Field

1 Harrisbug Privateers 85.125

2 Baltimore Cavliers 84.865

3 Westshoremen 84.750

4 White Roses 82.250

5 Chocolatiers 82.075

Exhibition: Hanover Bears

Hanover Invitational

August 20, 1955

Hanover, PA Delone Catholic High School attd: 4,000

1 Westshoremen - Wormleysburg 90.50

2 Rockets - Pittsburgh 88.70

3 Black Eagles - Williamsport 88.50

4 Cavalier - Baltimore 85.30

5 Privateers - Harrisburg 83.55

Exhibition - Baltimore Yankee Rebels

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Wild going back and seeing the Chocolatiers as a competetive corps! Wish there was more history to be found! (well besides scores)

Fawber! You need to write a book!

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Hey, Jim.

Wow! Helluva job pulling all this old info together and sharing with us!

Some related random thoughts / memories:

The first show I saw was at Smalls' field in York probably a few years later than those you posted. I remember seeing Archie, Yankee Rebels, Reilly (did a jig to Irish Washerwoman), and Cabs who brought the house down with Cherry Pink. York did an exhibition and were good, but no longer at quite that competitive level. Great show and, oh yeah, I was only about minus-20 years old at the time!

Hanover Bears = Hanover Lancers (now a good all age non-competing corps). BTW, Jm, have you been to the second floor meeting room at the Legion? There are somef great old photos of the corps on the wall - and probably al lot more stuff stashed away somewhere up there.

Williamsport Black Eagles - John Dowlan taught drums for this corps, "discovered" John Bosworth there and invited him to join the USAF drum corps. Don't know anything more about them, though.

Kenwood Cavaliers - I've heard of this corps but don't know if they later became a junior corps. I wonder if they were connected to the Cheverely Cavaliers who, from what I've heard, were really a corps that was "supplemented?" by a whole gang USAF drum corps guys who would compete with them when they could.

A lot of the corps names were familiar to me but, more surprising was how many were not: Hamburg Legion; Central City (and now the city is gone, too!); Burlington Highlanders, Henry Houston Post; Imhoff (heard of them, but know nothing more); Bollman Post - Lebanon; Fost Post - Mckeesport; McKall Post; Westminster Patriots (possibly succeeded by the Starlighters Jr corps from the 60s?).

If anyone here has any info on any of these corps, I'd love to hear about them so please add any details here. Thanks!

And...thanks again, to you, Jim, for your work and for posting a great read.

Best,

Steve

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Hanover Bears = Hanover Lancers (now a good all age non-competing corps). BTW, Jm, have you been to the second floor meeting room at the Legion? There are somef great old photos of the corps on the wall - and probably al lot more stuff stashed away somewhere up there.

Thanks for the background Steve AND the reminder. The reminder is I want to take my digital camera upstairs sometimes to get a copy of those pics. And before I forget there is a series of books with old pics of local areas. Think the title is "Images of..." and the Hanover book has two or so 1920s pics of the corps. Probably the same pics are found upstairs, haven't been up there since I got fitted for the uni. And actually all these scores came from one source, I just had a typing exercise. :lol:

Thanks all and time for the Kilties website for Boys of '76.... Meet some members at '74 DCA and couldn't believe they came all the way from the Midwest for Sr. Drum Corps. :lol: :lol: Man, have times changed. :doh:

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Thanks for the background Steve AND the reminder. The reminder is I want to take my digital camera upstairs sometimes to get a copy of those pics. And before I forget there is a series of books with old pics of local areas. Think the title is "Images of..." and the Hanover book has two or so 1920s pics of the corps. Probably the same pics are found upstairs, haven't been up there since I got fitted for the uni. And actually all these scores came from one source, I just had a typing exercise. :lol:

Thanks all and time for the Kilties website for Boys of '76.... Meet some members at '74 DCA and couldn't believe they came all the way from the Midwest for Sr. Drum Corps. :lol::smile: Man, have times changed. :smile:

Boys of 76 were a good corps that I always thought got the short end at DCA's in late 60's to early 70's.(sorry I can't be specific because I REALLY ENJOYED watching finals when I marched WBS. But anyway I was wondering when Long/West shore merged with Bonnie-Scots. I seem to think mid-late 50's, but not sure. Would be really neat to know. I saw a picture somewhere, maybe Patriot News, of Millersburg Bonnie-Scots. They were in full uniform in a parade, looked really good for the times they marched. Black and White pic, bet they were awesome live. :smile:

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Started sending these to Ron for srcorps.com but decided to post them here. Makes it easier for me as I can correct typos, easier for Ron as I'm sure he's busy. And if anyone has questions or sees a problem, hope they can be resolved.

Following are from the history of a local corps I found. Some scores in the history are already at www.srcorps.com and are not included here.

PS - Ron see my PM regard 1949 Hershey show. :sad:

1947 PA State American Legion

Class "C" (Parade) Aug 9, 1947

1 Hanover Legion 81.75

2 Central City Legion 77.50

3 Hamburg Legion 69.75

Hanover VFW Corps Show

June 24, 1950

Sheppard-Myers Field - Hanover, PA (attd: 4,000)

1 Reilly Raiders (VFW National champs) 92.05

2 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore 91.76

3 Archer Epler Musketeers 90.06

4 Highlanders - Burlington 82.75

5 York 80.07

6 Henry Houston Post 76.85

* Con Edison and Imhoff were compete but arrived too late

1950 PA American Legion State Championships

Philadelphia, PA - Municipal Stadium

Class "A"

1 Imhoff Post

2 Houston Post

3 York Post

Class "B"

1 Hanover

2 Bollman Post - Lebanon (1949 "B" Champs)

3 Fost Post - McKeesport

Class "D" (Juniors)

1 McKall Post

2 Bracken Post - Bristol

3 Upper Darby Post

1951 Parade of Champions

June 7, 1951

Hanover, PA - Sheppard-Myers Field

1 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore 81.10

2 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg 74.00

3 White Roses - York 73.50

4 Patriots - Westminster 62.80

Exhibitions:

Kenwood Cadets - Baltimore

Bears - Hanover

Eastern States Championship

July 7, 1951 - Hersey, PA (Hershey Stadium)

1 Reilly Raiders

2 Archer Epler Musketeers

3 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore

4 Imhof Post - Philadelphia

5 Hanover Bears

Pen-Mar Show july 28, 1951

Mechanicsburg, PA

1 York White Roses

2 Yankee Rebels - Baltimore

3 Imhof Thunderbirds

4 Hanover Bears

5 Hershey Choclatiers

6 Westminster Patriots

1951 PA American Legion State Chapionships

Pittsburgh, PA

Class "A"

1 Henry Houston Post 90.20

Class "B"

1 Hanover Bears 82.06

2 Rochester Post 68.04

Penn-Mar Show

August 24, 1951

1 Baltimore Yankee Rebels 88.10

2 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg 87.70

3 Hanover Bears 81.50

4 Chocolatiers - Hershey 78.10

5 Patriots - Westminster 74.50

Exhibition: York White Roses 87.70

Pen-Mar Show

Sept 1, 1951

Waynesbror, PA

1 Baltimore Yankee Rebels

2 York White Roses

3 Longshoremen - Wormleysburg

4 Hershy Chocoaltiers

5 Bears - Hanover

AL post 134 Marlboro mass SR champion 1933, 1934, 1938

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