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Post by Marching Observer on Aug 5, 2021 19:23:23 GMT -6
I thought it would be fun to see where everyone did or are marching. Show pictures of your stadium, practice field, band room, etc! I myself, stopped by my Alma Mater of Homestead (IN) and snapped a few photo's. Let's see where you all call home!  First we have Homestead's Football stadium. I'm sure Texas people will all be surprised by the size but remember, we are a basketball state. Not football. And yes, this is the largest stadium in the Fort Wayne area   Next is their practice field. You can see the football stadium in the background. They are really lucky to have a dedicated practice area and when the field turf got replaced, they recycled the old one to use for the band program. When I marched, it was all still grass. At least for halfway through band camp before it became a dust bowl!  |
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Post by marimba11 on Aug 5, 2021 19:54:06 GMT -6
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Aug 6, 2021 6:43:22 GMT -6
Ha ha. You modern kids. I'm not driving around for photos of a parking lot! I marched at Fort Wayne Snider many many many years ago, and our practice field was...the asphalt parking lot. Snider had no stadium so we used Northrop's Stadium as our home field. It was grass. No one had turf back then. The only time we marched on a turf field was State Finals in Terre Haute. By the way, the students were to have their cars off the lot...er, practice field by a certain time every afternoon. If cars were still there band members would literally lift the rear and roll them to the edge of the lot. (Cars were generally rear wheel drive then.) No one complained. The 70's. Times sure were different in those days. Northrop (Snider) Spuller Stadium:   |
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Post by TeamIndiana on Aug 6, 2021 6:52:55 GMT -6
Ha ha. You modern kids. I'm not driving around for photos of a parking lot! I marched at Fort Wayne Snider many many many years ago, and our practice field was...the asphalt parking lot. Snider had no stadium so we used Northrop's Stadium as our home field. It was grass. No one had turf back then. The only time we marched on a turf field was State Finals in Terre Haute. By the way, the students were to have their cars off the lot...er, practice field by a certain time every afternoon. If cars were still there band members would literally lift the rear and roll them to the edge of the lot. (Cars were generally rear wheel drive then.) No one complained. The 70's. Times sure were different in those days. I can only imagine the weather headaches that were caused by having finals outdoors... (semi-state vibes) |
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Aug 6, 2021 7:02:03 GMT -6
Ha ha. You modern kids. I'm not driving around for photos of a parking lot! I marched at Fort Wayne Snider many many many years ago, and our practice field was...the asphalt parking lot. Snider had no stadium so we used Northrop's Stadium as our home field. It was grass. No one had turf back then. The only time we marched on a turf field was State Finals in Terre Haute. By the way, the students were to have their cars off the lot...er, practice field by a certain time every afternoon. If cars were still there band members would literally lift the rear and roll them to the edge of the lot. (Cars were generally rear wheel drive then.) No one complained. The 70's. Times sure were different in those days. I can only imagine the weather headaches that were caused by having finals outdoors... (semi-state vibes) The season wasn't nearly as long as it is these days. Today Indiana State Finals is into November, generally. My guess is that back then State was held early October. Of course, it was also not ISSMA back then either. You had NISBOVA in the North, and ISMA in the Central/South. Then there was the Indiana State Marching Band Competition, which you qualified for by scoring high enough in ISMA or NISBOVA. Or that's my memory. /ThreadJack |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 6, 2021 7:23:23 GMT -6
 My high school football field where I marched from 1977-1981. I went to a private school in Memphis (Harding Academy) and was fortunate to be able to audition for and successfully march with the varsity band as an 8th grader giving me 5 glorious years in marching band!  The Leander stadium is nice and Texas sized. 😉 Also, I love that my high school primary color (royal blue) and mascot is the same as Leander’s! Go Lions!! |
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Post by Samuel Culper on Aug 6, 2021 7:51:31 GMT -6
View Attachment My high school football field where I marched from 1977-1981. I went to a private school in Memphis (Harding Academy) and was fortunate to be able to audition for and successfully march with the varsity band as an 8th grader giving me 5 glorious years in marching band! View Attachment The Leander stadium is nice and Texas sized. 😉 Also, I love that my high school primary color (royal blue) and mascot is the same as Leander’s! Go Lions!! For those unaware - Rouse and Glenn also claim that as their home field, even though it is on Leander's campus. We may have Texas-sized stadiums, but not for every single school! |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 6, 2021 8:09:34 GMT -6
View Attachment My high school football field where I marched from 1977-1981. I went to a private school in Memphis (Harding Academy) and was fortunate to be able to audition for and successfully march with the varsity band as an 8th grader giving me 5 glorious years in marching band! View Attachment The Leander stadium is nice and Texas sized. 😉 Also, I love that my high school primary color (royal blue) and mascot is the same as Leander’s! Go Lions!! For those unaware - Rouse and Glenn also claim that as their home field, even though it is on Leander's campus. We may have Texas-sized stadiums, but not for every single school! I guess I should have clarified that, sorry. |
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Post by Samuel Culper on Aug 6, 2021 9:06:06 GMT -6
For those unaware - Rouse and Glenn also claim that as their home field, even though it is on Leander's campus. We may have Texas-sized stadiums, but not for every single school! I guess I should have clarified that, sorry. Shame on you! (Kidding. No biggie. Luv ya!) |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 6, 2021 10:54:26 GMT -6
I guess I should have clarified that, sorry. Shame on you! (Kidding. No biggie. Luv ya!) sometimes I truly forget that Leander shares that stadium with anyone! 😬 |
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Post by Marching Observer on Aug 6, 2021 11:07:01 GMT -6
Yeah. That is one big difference between Texas and other states. A lot of the big schools share stadiums rather than having their own. Here, everyone gets their own stadium generally and rarely share (womp womp to Snider lol). But their excuse is that there was just no room for it or something to deal with the water table being too high for one by them? OldSchool could verify why.
But yeah, do any other states share stadiums frequently like Texas?
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Post by Marching Observer on Aug 6, 2021 11:08:10 GMT -6
Shame on you! (Kidding. No biggie. Luv ya!) sometimes I truly forget that Leander shares that stadium with anyone! 😬 From what I hear, Leander doesn't really have a football team to write home about either which is probably why 😜 |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 6, 2021 13:08:09 GMT -6
sometimes I truly forget that Leander shares that stadium with anyone! 😬 From what I hear, Leander doesn't really have a football team to write home about either which is probably why 😜 Definitely has been true for awhile now. Hopefully dropping back down a classification (from barely a 6A school back down to 5A) will help improve Leander’s football record. They were a powerhouse back when my older two daughters attended. It can hopefully happen again soon. 😁 |
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Post by boahistorybuff on Aug 6, 2021 17:13:38 GMT -6
Y'all can do a google satellite view of Flushing HS Mi on Google Maps. The track and marching band practice field is on the north side of the High School campus. The football games were actually held a half mile south behind Central Elementary. It is a grass football field with bleachers. They deemed the field at the high school too low and wet with not enough room for spectators for the Friday night football games. Looks like it is now being used for some soccer. We did not have the funding for a big fancy high school stadium. We always did get a little jealous when we competed at the stadiums at the better funded suburban metro Detroit schools.
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Aug 7, 2021 7:05:28 GMT -6
Yeah. That is one big difference between Texas and other states. A lot of the big schools share stadiums rather than having their own. Here, everyone gets their own stadium generally and rarely share (womp womp to Snider lol). But their excuse is that there was just no room for it or something to deal with the water table being too high for one by them? OldSchool could verify why. Not really. The school is dropped in the middle of a residential area and much of that was likely there before the school, so I always assumed it was merely that there wasn't sufficient space. The water table idea is not something I'd ever heard, but perhaps that's the actual reason. I mean, it's odd that a school like Snider would not have had its own stadium. Demographics have changed in the last 30-40 years but when that school was built it was, along with Northrop, one of the two most upscale high schools in the area. (Weird to think that when I was at Snider in a huge band, Homestead, just to the west of us, was merely a little "farm school." Now it's the reverse.) |
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Post by dbalash on Aug 9, 2021 7:31:05 GMT -6
The artificial turf was added after I graduated; prior to that was grass. One hard rain and that field would be pure mud the rest of the season. The backside of the press box that you see at the bottom of the picture was the during the day practice field; also always mud. There was a practice field behind the outfield fence of the baseball stadium my freshman year as well. They put the kibosh on that because it was too close to the religion classes. There is also an asphalt practice field probably about 500 yards from the football field that we would use for after school sectionals and Wednesday night rehearsals.  |
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Post by dbalash on Aug 9, 2021 7:52:11 GMT -6
The artificial turf was added after I graduated; prior to that was grass. One hard rain and that field would be pure mud the rest of the season. The backside of the press box that you see at the bottom of the picture was the during the day practice field; also always mud. There was a practice field behind the outfield fence of the baseball stadium my freshman year as well. They put the kibosh on that because it was too close to the religion classes. There is also an asphalt practice field probably about 1,000 yards from the football field that we would use for after school sectionals and Wednesday night rehearsals. This is the back of the old band room, where Symphonic Band rehearses. The notes are to Almighty Father, which has always been Marian's on-field warmup.  This is the front of the old band room (shamelessly stolen from Bobby Lambert, when he was at Marian for a leadership camp.)  This is the back of the new band room.  |
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Post by boahistorybuff on Aug 10, 2021 7:37:45 GMT -6
Wow, look at all the trophies.
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Post by Uncle Baby Billy on Aug 17, 2021 23:12:36 GMT -6
I think I spot an obscene number of BOA National & Summer National Championship trophies in that old band room. That program was on an epic tear from 1984-2000, winning 12 total BOA National caliber titles. I hope someone makes sure to polish that hardware. Wow, look at all the trophies. |
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Post by hostrauser on Aug 20, 2021 12:03:53 GMT -6
LOL. I went to a smallish school in Sacramento, only about 1200-1300 kids 9-12 at that time in the early 1990s. Our band was small but pretty good. Usually marched around 40 musicians, 20 guard, and 1 drum major. My freshman year (I didn't march) and sophomore year we only did band review competitions (parade marching, it's a California thing). We didn't even do a field show for football games. My junior year we did a field show for the first time in a decade, and ended up taking High Music overall at our first competition (early season, only about eight bands, but still). We practiced here...
Sacramento Foothill
Our school didn't have its own stadium at the time, so our football games were held at Highlands High School, literally "across the tracks" from us. It was just plain grass back then, no fancy turf. Highlands |
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