Football Games
Football Games
Students:
Bring your water bottle to the games.
Wear your bibber, black socks, and marching shoes. Only solid black shirts without writing or images under bibbers are allowed.
Uniform information will be published at the beginning of each week.
If you want to leave directly from the away game, make sure to fill out a trip return form, give it to your bus captain, and meet the bus captain at the bus after the game.
Parents:
Purchase football tickets this season: GoFan - Davidson Home Games
All parents must purchase tickets unless signed up to volunteer with the band.
Sign up to volunteer for home and away games:
During the school day, students will load large instruments on the trailers.
The white trailer is for percussion. The black trailer is for water and other instruments.
5:00 PM: Call time at Davidson to take roll and make sure we have all uniform parts and instruments.
5:30 PM: Load bus and leave for away game
6:00 PM: Unload trailers, warmup run a couple of stand tunes
6:40 PM: Enter the stadium sitting as a band
6:50 PM: Star Spangled Banner played by the HOME band.
7:00 PM: Kickoff
~7:40 PM: Band leaves the stands to get ready for halftime.
~8:00-8:15 PM: Perform halftime show. The away band always plays first; the home band plays second. This changes when it is homecoming or another event scheduled for that night (ex., senior night); the away team may not perform during halftime.
~8:20 PM (3rd Quarter): Students have a 20-minute break to relax and buy a snack.
~8:40 PM (4th Quarter): Band returns to stands to play.
9:15 PM: Pack up, load trailers, and return to Davidson.
It depends on where we play, traffic, and travel times for the arrival time back to Davidson.
9:30 PM-10:15 PM: Unload trailers and dismiss.
5:30 PM: Home game call time
5:50 PM: Return to band room for uniform inspections.
6:40 PM: Pregame on the field
6:50 PM: Play Star Spangled Banner
7:00 PM: Kick off
~7:40 PM: Band leaves the stands to get ready for halftime.
~8:00-8:15 PM: Perform halftime show. The home band plays first, the away band plays second. This changes when it is homecoming or another event is scheduled for that night (ex., senior night); the away team may not perform during halftime.
~8:20 PM (3rd Quarter): Students have a 20-minute break to relax and buy a snack.
~8:40 PM (4th Quarter): Band returns to stands to play.
9:15-9:30 PM: After the game, band students will clean up in the stadium and dismiss as a band.
Students not returning to the school via bus must have a signed Parent Trip Return Form signed and submitted to bus chaperones after every away event. Parent or guardian must see a band bus chaperone for submission of this form and checkout the student from the bus roster. This is mandatory for the safety of our band students.