Friday, October 27, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
6,000 to play at annual Band Day
By Robert Entriken Jr.
Kansan Staff Reporter
The first KU Band Day 28 years ago brought about 30 high school bands to the campus. They played the National Anthem at pregame, filed into the stands to watch the football game, and quietly went home.
The 24th annual KU Band Day Saturday will bring 91 bands to Memorial Stadium. Over 6,000 bandsmen will be featured during the halftime of the KU-Iowa State game as another 1,000 directors, chaperones, twirlers, pom-pon girls, and majorettes watch from the sidelines and the stands.
Russell Wiley, director of the
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KU bands, started the Band Day tradition in 1939.
"Other schools were having Band Days," he said, "and I felt Kansas should have one also."
Band Day was discontinued during World War II, but resumed in 1946 and has been an annual event ever since.
The early band days presented some problems, Wiley said.
"One year the bands were a little slow getting into the stadium. I had to begin conducting the National Anthem while some were still coming in.
"But we feel we've learned something over the years," Wiley added.
Now the bands gather in the stadium two hours before game time to find their places and rehearse the music for the half time show.
Members pick band
Members pick band KU Marching Band members each select one of the high school
bands to work with during the rehearsal. Before the bands arrive from lunch at Allen Field House, the KU men are out marking the field with cloth strips to show exactly the outline of the letters the massed bands will make at halftime.
Boswell died after participating in exercises during a meeting of the KU Karate Club.
Funeral services for Paul D. Boswell, who died Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Southwest Bible Church, 7820 Mission Road, Prairie Village.
Burial will be in Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, Blue Ridge Extension and East Gregory Road.
When the bands begin to arrive, the KU men help them find their seats in the stands, then take them onto the field to their proper places.
In formation the young band members are packed shoulder to shoulder. Nine are sandwiched into each five yard length of the field. One letter, 25 yards high
The county coroner's office said the Kansas City junior's death was due to natural causes with no indication of injury.
Services for Paul Boswell tomorrow
and 14 yards wide, may take as many as six bands.
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He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Boswell, 1311 E. 50th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Bands of all sizes participate in the Band Day activities. Schools such as Iola or Wichita Heights may bring as many as 100 bandsmen while groups as small as 25 will represent smaller schools such as Perry or Winchester.
KU Band Day has become so popular that Wiley is swamped each year with calls and letters from directors who want to come. At least 60 were turned down this year and the event is becoming so popular that Wiley may soon have to begin issuing invitations every other year to bands who want to come.
Yet Wiley still manages to make
room for two or three more than his original plans called for.
One band wanted to come so badly this year that, after being turned down by Wiley, the director telephoned a high university official to ask Wiley to let his band come.
"The band was from a very small town," said Wiley. "They've never been here before. I didn't even realize they had a band."
Band canceled out
KU alums contribute to athletic victory club
Soon after, another band scheduled to come canceled and Wiley replaced them with the little band.
Before each KU home football game, members of an exclusive club meet for an informal luncheon in a special room at Memorial Stadium.
The members of the Jayhawk Victory Club include a number of outstanding KU alumni. Some are legislators and public officials.
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"They are all people who have KU's interests at heart," said Wade Stinson, athletic director.
Saturday the little band, and 90 others, will join in playing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "America the Beautiful" under Wiley's directorship as they spell out, on the full 120-yard length of the football field:
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The group is not really a club because it does not hold regular meetings. It is an honorary organization.
Stinson said two other groups, the Outland Scholarship Club and the Jayhawk Club, also contribute to the athletic fund.
To attain membership in the group, members contribute $500 or more a year to the KU athletic fund through the Endowment Association.
"We have to depend very much on outside help for our athletic scholarships to augment ticket sales," he said. "The contributions of this group and others help greatly."
Stinson estimated that there are 110 members of the club.
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