Dartmouth, Harvard Bands Parody New Haven Fracas

The Harvard Band provided one of the weekend's most amusing moments when it indulged in a bit of self-derision. During the Dartmouth game, PETER STRAUSS '54 (top) drew applause by leading the band in this striped prisoner's jacket. The jacket is an allusion to Strauss incarceration in the New Haven jug following a 3 a.m. concert at Yale.

The Band, on its way to New York for the Columbia game, made its traditional stop at the Yale quadrangle in the early morning. Four busloads of musicians and their dates poured onto the streets near the Yale campus, and began to serenade the sleeping Elis. Cat-calls and the New Haven police force interrupted the concert, however, and Strauss was carted off to jail (bottom) with another band member. He was released on $250 bail, and his trial has been postponed indefinitely.

At half-time, Dartmouth's band engineered a take-off on the Band's New Haven misfortunes. Using the "Dragnet" theme, and parodying the parody of "Dragnet" language, the Green bandmen re-worked the incident in pantomime.