CMU Marching Chips - Postgame 09-14-85

Central Michigan University Chippewa Marching Band. Post game performance of the fight song to the winning Chippewa football team in the locker room. Followed by the march to the ceremonial tree with full drum cadence. My first game as a Marching Chip freshmen! (Copied from VHS and edited to fit YouTube time restrictions.)

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Entertainment

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• CMU
• Central
• Michigan
• Marching
• Band
• Chips
• Chippewas
• 1985
• 1980's

[RKorte1utube]

If CMU lost, the march to the tree was somber & quiet. No cadence, just drum taps. At the tree, we'd sing the alma mater instead of playing the fight song. It was all very depressing. :-/

[chippewaman1971]

Thanks for the video. It's so cool to see Marching Chips clips on YouTube. This was just a few years before I joined the band in 1989. It was so sad to hear of Jack Saunders' passing a few years ago. R.I.P. I'm sure he's commanding that great marching band up in the sky right now.

[thatguythatgirl]

Say Whaddya say? SAY BOP BOP BA-DOP!!!! Man I miss this!!!

[chippewaman1975]

@RKorte1utube Yeah, I remember those "death marches." I hated them. We usually blamed it on the rookies, lol. When I was with the Marching Chips in '91 the football team tied four games (two of those were at home I think) and we didn't know whether to have a "victory march" or a "death march" since it was a tie. We decided a tie is not a win, so we treated it like a loss and marched out with the drum taps.

[gochipsman]

would this only be done if CMU won the game that day?

[gochipsman]

To Chippewaman1971: I dont think anyone could have said what you said better than you did!  This was good stuff!!, Those Snares back than sounded real, not like the ones today which sound like a damn quaker oat tub!

[gkneefl]

My Rookie year too! Thanks so much for uploading these!! Fire up Chips!!