For Tonight's Scores...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(ROSEMONT, Ill.) — What do you mean? There won’t be any scores for The Cavaliers for the 2020 season. The season is cancelled. Has your creative mind gone mad after spending too much time in COVID-19 quarantine? No, we get it. But we also know that everyone involved in drum corps waits for scores to be posted during the Summer. We all have our way of getting info, whether it is from DCI, a corps site, a social media feed, or even a fan live-streaming the announcement from the stadium. Some of us are old enough to remember having to call into a score line to get results or even worse, wait for your copy of Drum Corps World to arrive in the mail in the days before the creation of the Internet.
But without a season, those rituals of summer will be lost. At The Cavaliers, we knew we would miss it too and we would have to find a way to get our scores fix. We enlisted the assistance of Cavalier Alumni Association (CAA) Historian Nathan Huxtable, who in a few short days completed a superhuman research project cataloguing all of the known scores in Cavalier history for each date. Did you know that on today’s date, May 29, 1966, The Cavaliers were just up the road in Kenosha, Wisconsin? They placed first with a score of 67.60, ahead of the Vanguard, Royal Airs, Norwood Park Imperials, and Spectacle City Mariners. The US Air Force Academy performed in exhibition.
So starting on June 1st, we will be posting Historical Scores for The Cavaliers throughout the Summer. It starts off a little slowly – historically there weren’t as many shows in early June (and those that we know of weren’t well-documented) – but by the middle of the month the slate will get full! We’ll throw in a few historical tidbits and highlight some key milestones for the Corps. In fact some of those milestones happen the first week of June!
So watch the Corps’ social media sites for the daily posts! We’ll make sure that we post them early enough so it won’t be like waiting for west coast scores.
The Cavaliers
The Cavaliers were founded in 1948 from Boy Scout Troop 111 by the late Don Warren. One of the most successful drum and bugle corps in history, The Cavaliers have won 20 national championships, including seven Drum Corps International world championships, since 1992.
The Cavaliers provide a variety of life-changing educational and performance programs for young people that go beyond music and performing arts to build personal accountability, excellence, teamwork and camaraderie. Programs include GearWORKS, Cavaliers Indoor Percussion, Chromium Winds, Crystal Lake Thunder and Midwest Connection.
A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, The Cavaliers, Inc. is sponsored by The Village of Rosemont, Ill.