Thanks for the post Norm'65! I kept thinking it was Starkville that had one more year than us at contest but I wasn't 100% sure.
I posted this tidbit on a another thread but as a 7th grader, I didn't get to march in the high school band, only played concert band. I did however have a special job at contest that year. Dressed in my marching band uniform before the band came on the field, I was at about the 40 yard sideline and had to march to the hash mark with a sombrero. Inside the hat was a cowbell, that I placed both on the ground. Then marched back to the sideline. The band came out and when they got to the main song in front of the crowd. the drummer (can't remember if it was my old friend Jim Lackey or someone else in percussion, that picked up the cowbell, hit it 4 times and the band started playing "Perfidia" as the rifles twirled and the flags spun).
Gives a new meaning to "Need more Cowbell"!
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