Rudy Wiedoeft Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 What was the smallest community to put a corps in DCI Finals? 1975 Finleyville Royal Crusaders (9th place) comes to mind for me. Finleyville PA only has a few hundred residents. A pretty impressive accomplishment at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyd Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Auburn, New York (Purple Lancers) is a small city. Watkins Glen (Squires) almost (13th). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironlips Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 I guess it depends on how you define "community", and timing counts, too. Casper was a pretty small town when the Troopers made their first appearance, but was probably larger than Finleyville by the time the Royal Crusaders showed up. Great Bend, KS had a comparatively small population in 1972, and most of those Argonne Rebel kids were from the same high school district, I think. Schaumburg wasn't exactly Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island in 1976 when the Guardsmen appeared and for that matter, Concord was a cow-town in 1974. Still, the Finleyville pick might be correct. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunther Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 It is also necessary to specify what you mean. Did the corps members reside in that town? How many? What percentage? In the DCI era, members in most corps have no relationship to the name/address of the corps. They are visitors at best. However, prior to the DCI, it was almost a certainty that most corps' members lived in or very near the corps address. Visit a rehearsal of the current corps and you will see car license plates from all over the country. After finals, bus lineups are placed by what part of the country they will make drop-offs , such as California - North or South, etc, regardless of the corps name labeled on the bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Wiedoeft Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 16 hours ago, ironlips said: I guess it depends on how you define "community", and timing counts, too. I understand it is impossible to calculate the transiency of members from outside the corps’ “home” community. The only objective way to look at it is with the size of the home town of the corps. I would imagine most of todays corps are made up of a very large percent of “out-of-towners”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironlips Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Rudy Wiedoeft said: I understand it is impossible to calculate the transiency of members from outside the corps’ “home” community. The only objective way to look at it is with the size of the home town of the corps. I would imagine most of todays corps are made up of a very large percent of “out-of-towners”. In that case, I think we have a winner: 2022 Population- Finleyville, PA = 381 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevingamin Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 As somebody yelled from the stands at DCM in '75, "THE ROYAL WHAT FROM WHERE???" They found out real quick the answer to those questions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSnareDrummer Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Well, in fairness, Finleyville had all of Pittsburgh to draw from. I don't know for fact, but I believe they were from Finleyville in name only via an AL sponsorship or somesuch. I think ironlips hit it, certainly as a true hometown corps in Argonne. You could even throw Hutchinson Sky Ryders in the top 5 or so before they moved to Texas. They were "mostly" local kids first time in Top 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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