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The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band is the official marching band of Texas A&M University. Composed of over 400 men and women from the school's Corps of Cadets, it is the largest military marching band in the United States. The band's complex military marching maneuvers are performed exclusively to traditional marches. They are one of the few military bands at major universities, as opposed to the more common HBCU, Drum Corps, and “show band” styles. The Aggie Band was founded in 1894 by Joseph Holick, who, after being recruited as a cobbler at the then Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, began playing Reveille and Taps for cadet functions. With the commandant’s blessing, Holick became the first bandmaster and formed a cadet band that grew from its original 13 members in 1894 to 75 by 1924. The band’s fierce reputation originated from an unusual tradition in which early drum majors were selected through physical combat; the moniker "Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band" was coined by cadets in recognition of this aggressiveness. Richard J. Dunn was selected as the band director in 1924 and transformed them into the nationally recognized military-style marching band it is today. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightin...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
