Update: Our Last Bladderball

Update: 11/4/2018 … The Yale Record adds a copy of its “Program” to the bottom of the original post. See below.

We need some help to determine who REALLY won Bladderball our Senior year.

John Adams, representing the Yale Marching Band, reported that the Band, disregarding the pre-printed headlines of the Yale Daily News that they had won the game, fielded a team and should be declared a winner, based on style points if nothing else:

John reports, “The contest was enthusiastic but never threatened to send the ball completely outside the Old Campus containment area.  As the ball bounced higher and made great leaps in a single bound, it approached the Band squad.  And as it descended from a huge bounce, Bob Wharton, our stalwart Sousaphone player, squared up, reared back and swatted the bladderball with the bell of the Sousaphone.

We became the only band in the land with a Sousaphone in the shape of a Klein bottle.

(Bob reports that he never got a bill for the repair – SSHH!)

But like I said, the Bladerball crown that year was in dispute.  The folks from WYBC have a copy of their 10-minute report on the Game … and their glorious victory.

Listen for yourself and decide whether this was Fake News or not:

WYBC-AM Bladderball Special

And Here Is The Yale Record’s “Program”