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The Louisiana State University Tiger Marching Band (also called the Golden Band from Tiger land or simply the Tiger Band) is the marching band of Louisiana State University (LSU). The band has 325 members and performs at all LSU football home games, all bowl games, and away games.
In 2002, the Louisiana State University Tiger Marching Band won the Sudler Trophy awarded by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, given to the top ranked college/university band in the nation. The Sudler Trophy is widely regarded as "the Heisman Trophy for bands."
The Louisiana State University Tiger Marching Band (also called The Golden Band from Tigerland or simply the Tiger Band) is known by LSU Tiger fans and foes alike for the first four notes of its pregame salute sounded on Saturday nights in Tiger Stadium.
The band plays the song often, most notably when the team enters the field (while the band is in a tunnel formation at the end of its pregame performance), successfully kicks a field goal, scores an extra point, or completes a two-point conversion. [2] Following a halftime performance, the band often exits the field while playing "Fight for LSU."
In 1870, the name of the institution was officially changed to Louisiana State University. [16] Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College was established by an act of the legislature, approved April 7, 1874, to carry out the United States Morrill Act of 1862, granting lands for this purpose. It temporarily opened in New ...
Castro Carazo (June 18, 1895 - December 28, 1981) was a Costa Rican-born American composer.He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Barcelona. [1] Carazo collaborated on multiple songs with governor and senator Huey Long, including several of Louisiana State University's fight songs.
The "LSU Alma Mater" was written in 1929 by Lloyd Funchess and Harris Downey, two students who developed the original song and music because LSU's first alma mater was sung to the tune of "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and was used by Cornell University. [1] [2] The band plays the "Alma Mater" during pregame and at the end of each home football ...
Pregame show – Louisiana State University Tiger Marching Band "pregame show" was created in 1964, and revised over the next nine years into its current format. The marching band lines up along the end zone shortly before kick off.