• The Virginia Tech Regimental Band, also known as the Highty Tighties, VPI Cadet Band, or Band Company was established in 1893 as a military marching band...
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  • traditionally waved by cheerleaders at Virginia Tech football games and the Highty-Tighties played Dixie as a fight song when the Hokies scored a touchdown. A...
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    visitors to admire when not in use. The Highty-Tighties: Virginia Tech's regimental band, the Highty-Tighties was founded in 1892 and is the oldest collegiate...
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    Manassas, Virginia. The VPI Cadet Band has been referred to as the Highty-Tighties since 1921. Before U.S. entry into World War I, the ROTC (Reserve Officer...
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    officers. In military bands, such as the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band or Highty-Tighties, drum majors are senior officers who are responsible for discipline...
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    from the Virginia Tech Regimental Band, which was nicknamed the, “Highty-Tighties” in 1919 Some other theories suggest that the cheer was fashioned by...
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    two collegiate marching bands at Virginia Tech (the other being the Highty Tighties, the regimental band of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets). Because...
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  • major and former leader of the Highty-Tighties Jim Schaeffer, American drum major and former leader of the Highty-Tighties (relative of James Soloman Schaeffer)...
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    band, The Marching Virginians, and the Corps of Cadets' band, the Highty Tighties. The Old Hokie spirit yell, in use since 1896, is familiar to all Tech...
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    Homestead BCB Airport Life Collegiate Times Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Highty-Tighties The Marching Virginians The New Virginians Virginia Tech Rescue Squad...
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