Forty Years Ago:

Dream Contest Weekend

8 August 1964
"The Dream Preview"
Newark NJ
1. 85.72 St Lucys Cadets
2. 85.22 Blessed Sacrament
3. 83.58 St Kevins Emerald Knights
4. 81.27 Selden Cadets
5. 79.83 Garfield Cadets
6. 76.42 Newark Woodsiders
7. 70.22 St Brendans Cadets
8. 63.06 Belles of St Mary

8 August 1964
Reading PA
1. 87.00 Connecticut Hurricanes
2. 83.32 Baltimore Yankee Rebels
3. 82.23 New York Skyliners
4. 81.75 Archer Epler Musketeers
5. 78.42 Pittsburgh Rockets

9 August 1964
The National Dream
Roosevelt Stadium
Jersey City NJ

Juniors
1. 84.45 St Kevins Emerald Knights
2. 84.17 Blessed Sacrament
3. 83.87 St Lucys Cadets
4. 81.45 Vasella Musketeers
5. 80.07 Garfield Cadets
6. 75.28 Audubon Bon Bons

Seniors
1. 83.55 Hawthorne Caballeros
2. 79.74 Long Island Sunrisers
3. 78.13 Reilly Raiders
4. 76.73 Ballantine Brewers
5. 75.27 Princemen

A mid-contest exibition was provided by the 'Thunderbirds' color guard of the Bridgeport PAL Cadets drum corps. In his coverage of the "Dream" contest, DCN scribe Ed Rooney wondered why the entire corps had not been invitedto participate.

Scores courtesy of Drum Corps News.

SAM