Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights
Other Names:Union Golden Knights
Newark, NJ United States
Founded: 1948
Results from final championship competition of the year
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| Repertoire for 1960 |
| Spellbound Intro by Miklos Rozsa movie soundtrack |
| National Emblem March by Edwin Eugene Bagley Fiedler's Favorite Marches / Boston Pops Orchestra - Bmg/Rca Victor - #60700; ASIN: B000003F2V |
| Por Favor by Joe Sherman | Noel Sherman Vikki Carr - Mis 30 Mejores Canciones - Sony Discos; ASIN: B000002EGL |
| America I Love You by Archie Gottler | Edgar Leslie |
| You and the Night and the Music by Arthur Schwartz | Howard Dietz Band Wagon (1953) Soundtrack |
| What is This Thing Called Love? by Cole Porter Ella Fitzgerald Vol. 2-Cole Porter Songbook |
| All the Things You Are by Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein Till the Clouds Roll By - Movie Soundtrack - Sony 47029 |
| Comes Love by Sam H. Stept | Lew Brown | Charles Tobias Benny Goodman - 1939 - Jazz Chronological Classics; ASIN: B00000IAYZ |
| In the Still of the Night by Cole Porter Cole Porter Songbooks Vols. 1 & 2 - Dcc Gold Disc; ASIN: B000000181 |
In 1952 Fr. Robert F. Garner took steps to make the corps competitive as an all-male corps, a tradition that continued until 1971. "Sac" turned out to be one of the greatest corps ever. In just 26 months the group went from their first contest to national championships in both the American Legion and VFW. The average corps age was just 16 at the time. The accomplishment came to be known as The Gold Rush of 1954.
Consider these further accomplishments: From 1954 through 1963 they won nine of the 13 Nationals they entered. From 1954 through 1970 they were in the top four 18 times in the 21 Nationals they entered. They also won the first World Open in 1963. World Drum Corps Hall of Famer Dick Burns was a soloist with Sac from 1953 to 1963.
A story from this era has it that Fr. Garner asked the name of a tune he heard the corps playing. As the result, Sac was forbidden to play one of its great hits, "Love for Sale," for many years.
Sac sponsored an annual contest, the Cavalcade of Music, each June.
Blessed Sacrament, one of the original 13 DCI member corps, never attended the DCI Championships. The corps folded after the 1972 season.
A senior corps was formed about 1974 to compete in DCA but they too were gone a year later. The current alumni corps, formed in 1991, is one of the most nostalgic of the alumni corps around, playing the Sac music from years gone by.
A new incarnation of the Blessed Sacrament Junior Drum & Bugle Corps was announced in August, 2003, to serve the youth of the inner city neighborbood in Newark. The U.S. Naval Academy Drum & Bugle Corps got the fund raising under way by donating a full set of instruments.
In the summer of 2004, more than half of all the musicians who had imarched with Blessed Sac in 1954 gathered in Union, New Jersey, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that dual championship year.
[Encyclopedia of Drum and Bugle Corps, 1966; John Palatucci, rec.arts.marching.drumcorps, 12/26/2001; DCW, 5/02, p.32 DCW, 8/31/03, p.23; DCW, 8/20/04, p.9, inter alia]
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1952 4 scores
Highest Score 84.800
Final show in DCX Archives September 28, 1952 Nutley NJ placed 6 with a score of 84.800
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1953 1 scores
Highest Score 85.850
Final show in DCX Archives July 18, 1953 Eastern States Championship Bristol PA placed 4 with a score of 85.850
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1954 3 scores
Highest Score 90.450
Final show in DCX Archives August 30, 1954 American Legion National Championships - Juniors Washington DC placed 1 with a score of 90.450
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1955 5 scores
Highest Score 92.680
Final show in DCX Archives October 19, 1955 American Legion National Championships Miami FL placed 1 with a score of 92.680
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1956 5 scores
Highest Score 91.250
Final show in DCX Archives September 9, 1956 The Dream Jersey City NJ
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1957 4 scores
Highest Score 91.800
Final show in DCX Archives September 14, 1957 American Legion National Championships Atlantic City NJ placed 3 with a score of 89.630
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1958 9 scores
Highest Score 91.850
Final show in DCX Archives September 7, 1958 The Dream Jersey City NJ
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1959 6 scores
Highest Score 89.020
Final show in DCX Archives August 22, 1959 American Legion National Championships Minneapolis MN placed 1 with a score of 89.020
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1960 7 scores
Highest Score 90.050
Final show in DCX Archives July 23, 1960 Parade of Champions Unknown placed 1 with a score of 84.300
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1961 9 scores
Highest Score 91.450
Final show in DCX Archives October 1, 1961 Paterson NJ placed 1 with a score of 88.440
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1962 12 scores
Highest Score 90.100
Final show in DCX Archives September 30, 1962 Union City NJ placed 1 with a score of 88.500
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1963 22 scores
Highest Score 92.350
Final show in DCX Archives October 6, 1963 PBA Invitational Union City NJ placed 1 with a score of 87.413
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1964 28 scores
Highest Score 88.250
Final show in DCX Archives September 27, 1964 Union City NJ placed 3 with a score of 81.055
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1965 23 scores
Highest Score 87.450
Final show in DCX Archives September 25, 1965 Newark NJ placed 3 with a score of 81.740
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1966 23 scores
Highest Score 90.600
Final show in DCX Archives September 18, 1966 Livingston NJ placed 1 with a score of 83.750
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1967 16 scores
Highest Score 87.823
Final show in DCX Archives September 3, 1967 Brooklyn NY placed 1 with a score of 85.400
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1968 11 scores
Highest Score 81.830
Final show in DCX Archives August 31, 1968 World Open Prelims Lynn MA placed 4 with a score of 78.830
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1969 10 scores
Highest Score 87.750
Final show in DCX Archives August 24, 1969 American Legion National Championships Atlanta GA placed 3 with a score of 80.400
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1970 10 scores
Highest Score 90.300
Final show in DCX Archives September 12, 1970 New Jersey American Legion Championship Wildwood NJ placed 2 with a score of 78.850
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1971 18 scores
Highest Score 81.050
Final show in DCX Archives August 8, 1971 The Dream Jersey City NJ placed 5 with a score of 81.050
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1972 9 scores
Highest Score 79.900
Final show in DCX Archives August 12, 1972 U.S. Open Marion OH placed 10 with a score of 71.500
Members (27)
| Member Name | Section | Years Involved |
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| BRENNAN, JACK | DRUM LINE | 1972 to 1973 |
| BUTLER-GARCIA, DIANE | Honor Guard | 1972 to 1973 |
| Baldwin, Richard | French Horn | 1966 to 1967 |
| Baldwin, Richard | French Horn | 1966 |
| Bell, John | Mellophone | 1975 |
| Blakely, Doug | 1st Soprano | 1972 to 1973 |
| CLARK, MAURICE | SNARE LINE | 1979 |
| CYR, GEORGE | 2ND BARITONE | 1962 to 1964 |
| Day, Joseph | Baritone | 1959 to 1963 |
| De Lisa, Gene | soprano | 1975 |
| Diaz, Jose | Baritone | 1966 to 1967 |
| Dixon, John | drum line - tenor | 1964 to 1965 |
| Duhigg , Brandon | Soprano | 1991 |
| Hewitt, Tom | Brass | 1963 |
| Horne, Steve | Contra | 1973 |
| Jones, Richard | color guard / drum major | 1963 to 1967 |
| Kraft, George | 1st soprano | 1972 to 1973 |
| LaGreca, Chuck | Mellophone | 1966 to 1968 |
| Love, Bob | Snare line | 1963 to 1967 |
| Love, Robert (Bob) | French Horn | 1955 to 1956 |
| Mycek, Mike | Guard | 1969 |
| O'Hara, Jimmy | Snare | 1968 to 1969 |
| Ralph, Patrick | Drumline | 1970 to 1972 |
| Schumacher, John | Soprano | 1965 to 1969; 1971 |
| brown, brian | saprano | 1967 |
| kNISS, Fred | SOLO SOPRANO | 1969 to 1970 |
| mycek, mike | Guard | 1969 |
CORPS 21 items
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BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,DH1-NationalChamps(Site)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Hat1-BlackSideCap(eBay)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Hat2-GoldSideCap(JPA)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Patch1-B&GInsignia(RPE)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection Contributed by Robert Pero
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Pin1-GoldenKnightsStripe(GBA)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Pin2-GoldPlumedKnight(JPA)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,Pin3-Knight(BJA-4.0)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,PN1-GKNewark(BIV)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,PN2-BS(BIV)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,ST1-Shield(BIV-4.0x5.0)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
BlessedSacrament,Newark,NJ,ST2-RoundKnight(BIV-5.0)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection
1969 Blessed Sacrament Drum & Bugle Corps - "America The Beautiful" from the Roy Perez Collection
1969 Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights - "Eleanor Rigby" from the Roy Perez Collection
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162-167, Blessed Sac Gold Knig from the Steve Vickers Collection
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights 1 from the Wayne Hiller Collection
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights 2 from the Wayne Hiller Collection
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