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During pre-season camp and on all Saturday home game days, the band uses the LSU Indoor Practice Facility that is part of the Football Operations Center. The indoor facility was built in 1991, is a climate-controlled 82,500 square feet, and is adjacent to LSU's four outdoor 100-yard football practice fields used by the LSU football team.
Performed at the first televised football game and the first football game televised in color. First band to use field bugles in a field show (1913–14), thus making the Marching Illini the first drum and bugle corps; Debbie Soumar became the first female Drum Major of the Big Ten in 1977
2007 Drum Major Chauvin Aaron leads the Pride during its pregame performance before the Sooners play the University of North Texas Mean Green on 2007-09-01. Thrailkill also introduced the current pre-game show, which has been used continuously in one form or another for over 35 years.
A Tambour-Major of the French Imperial Guard (historical reenactment). The position of drum major originated in the British Army with the Corps of Drums in 1650. [citation needed] Military groups performed mostly duty calls and battle signals during that period, and a fife and drum corps, directed by the drum major, would use short pieces to communicate to field units.
The drum major is the highest ranked position that a member can achieve within the GBMB. The GBMB has 3 drum majors that can be recognized by their white pants, cowboy hats, gloves, and shoes (as opposed to the black articles for regular members). Drum majors are also given black visors in place of the white baseball caps for regular members.
Performing in Los Angeles in 1962 during a trip to Pasadena, CA for the 1963 Rose Bowl First Female Drum Major, Dee Willems, in 1989. Performing at Camp Randall Stadium for a football game. The University of Wisconsin Marching Band was created in 1885 as the Wisconsin Regimental Band.
In 1886, the Purdue Student Army Training Corps, forerunner of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, formed a five-member drum corps to play music for the cadets during their morning conditioning marches. Purdue fielded its first football team a year later, in 1887. The band began playing at games soon afterward.
Drum Majors and Assistant Drum Majors of the Marching Chiefs fulfill ceremonial as well as musical positions of leadership within the band. One of the most significant and visible responsibilities of the Drum Major is the pre-game strut, which includes a 40-yard strut and mace toss prior to the beginning of the Marching Chiefs' pre-game show.