*pregame*

And now… the only band in the Ivy League you can still take your kids to see… the Dartmouth College Marching Band!

(out to DT#1)

The DCMB would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to one of the most treasured members of our athletic department, someone who has not only helped the band tremendously for the last two years, but has also done an infinite amount for Dartmouth athletics in general and baseball in particular. We are speaking, of course, of Mike Walsh. Among other things, Coach Walsh has led the Dartmouth baseball team to national prominence, beating perennial powerhouses such as Michigan. In addition, as assistant athletic director at Dartmouth, he has been invaluable to the DCMB as our liaison with the DCAC. As of December 1^st, Mike will become athletic director at Washington and Lee University, and we of the DCMB, like the rest of the Dartmouth community, will miss him greatly. Watch now as the DCMB says thank you and good luck to Mike Walsh by forming a home plate, because he's ALWAYS welcome to come home to Dartmouth, and playing a song he's going to be hearing a lot more of, the Washington and Lee Swing

Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise as Student Conductor Marilyn Cummings and Director Max Culpepper lead the band in the playing of the Dartmouth College Alma Mater and the Star Spangled Banner.

*halftime*

And now… the only band in the Ivy League that thinks being green with envy is better than being brown with… well, you know… the Dartmouth College Marching Band!

(out to DT#1)

Hello, neighbors. My name is Mr. Rogers, and welcome to my Dartmouth neighborhood. Today we are going to learn about the color brown. Freshmen, can you say "Brown?" Oh, that's good, I knew you could. There are many things that are brown, such as:

Heck, let’s face it, the whole state of Rhode Island is brown. And it's not even a real state – it’s just a low-security parking lot for Massachusetts. So why are there 50 states in the union? Because Hawaii counts twice, of course. Watch now as the DCMB forms a map of Rhode Island, scale one to one, and plays that great Top 40 hit written by the German singer Falco about Brown University, Mock Me, I'm So Heinous

For those Brown students who had trouble understanding today's episode of Mr. Roger's Dartmouth Neighborhood, a remedial viewing session will be held after the game in Kiewit. And now, the DCMB was hoping to bring you a list of the Top Ten Things That Smell Worse Than Brown, but let's face it, there just AREN'T ten things that smell worse than Brown. We did manage to find the following eight:

8) the AD basement

7) New Jersey

6) any of the thicker soups at Collis

5) Boston Harbor

4) all the skunks in the greater Hanover area

3) the kitchen at Thayer

2) the Green during springtime

but the thing that smells the worst has GOT to be the ORL's fraternity policies. Watch now as the DCMB plays Peter Gunn and forms a dung heap, complete with flies. Any resemblance to the Brown University Marching Band is unintentional.

The football season is almost over, and that means it's time once again to pay a tribute to all the DCMB seniors, who are as follows:

Cas Dunlap

Mike Jenkins

Lauren Kehoe

Linda Kim

John Kornet

Stephen LeBlanc

Kim Lewis

Becca Michaels

Trish Miner

Jamie Pringle

Bruce Sacerdote

Eric Schlegle

Jim Spotts

Mark Sternmon

April Weisman

Andy Williams

Drum Major Roth Herrlinger

and last but certainly not least, Band President Tor Blaisdell. The grand old seniors would now like to salute themselves... and their fellow members of the class of 1990 by forming an authentic Dartmouth diploma, complete with President Freedman's signature, and playing a classic graduation song.

(rectangle form, play Pomp & Circumstance/Hawaii 5-0)

The DCMB thanks you for supporting Dartmouth Football this fall, we hope you had as much fun as we did, and we hope to see you again this winter at various Dartmouth basketball and hockey victories.