The Marching Chiefs of Florida State University

<p> The history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs is chronicled from early efforts to found a band before the program's 1939 establishment at Florida State College for Women to the Chiefs' attainment of world renowned status. The band's leaders shows and music are discussed along with the origins of some of their venerable traditions game-day rituals and school songs. This story of the Chiefs takes into account the growth of FSU and its School of Music the rise of Big Football in Tallahassee and the transformations on campus and in American society that affected them.</p>