The Marching Chiefs of Florida State University: The Band That Never Lost a Halftime Show

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction: FSU vs. East Carolina, September 20, 1980
• Part I. Marching Chiefs One Time!
• 1. College Town (to 1937)
• Higher Education in Tallahassee
• “Femina Perfecta”: The Florida State College for Women (1909)
• 2. Picture and Sound (1938–1946)
• The Tally Troopers
• Two Cellists
• “Band Pageantry” and War
• The Remarkable Frank Sykora
• Sellers Returns
• 3. Becoming the Chiefs (1947–1953)
• A Coed University … Again
• Halftime Hijinks
• Robert Braunagel (1949–1953)
• October 1950
• Football Gets Serious
• Part II. Marching Chiefs Two Times!
• 4. Whit (1953–1962)
• Manley R. Whitcomb
• “Music, Music, Music”
• “Hell-Raisers”
• Small Scandals
• Damned Gators
• Whit Retires
• 5. The Art of the Marching Band (1963–1970)
• Charlie Carter
• “Brownie”
• “Never lost a ­halftime show”
• Forging an Art Form
• “Ghosts of FSCW”
• The Chiefs Go Bowling
• 6. World Renowned (1971–1976)
• “With an ­ever present flair”
• “Anti-Football Views”
• Syria and Jordan (1974)
• Dis-Spirited ’76
• Part III. Marching Chiefs Three Times!
• 7. Football Rising: Bowden, Bernie and
• delete deleteBentley (1976–1990)
• Tradition Returns
• “Where our traditions come from”: FSU at Ohio State, October 3, 1981
• The Voice
• Shellahamer Returns
• “We played the ‘War Chant’ ­non-stop”
• 8. A Marching Band for a New Era (1991 to Today)
• Dunnagin and Plack
• “Zero tolerance”
• Exit Charlie
• World Renowned … Still
• Post-Game: “Here’s a hymn…”
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index