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execution when done by the entire band, this bow has a set of verbal commands to be screamed while executing it, namely ", kick, down-2, hats-2, off-2-3-4, down-2-3-4, up-2-3-4, on-2, down-2, O-HI-O". This climax of the i-dotting drill, though, is usually performed on-count to one side of the stadium (facing up away from the script) and more slowly/artistically to the other side of the stadium (facing down towards the script). The band then marks time in position while singing "Buckeye Battle Cry" to the accompaniment of the lone sousaphone player who has "dotted the i".
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credited Script Ohio as the first instance of a marching band executing moving script writing and Weigel reported receiving almost daily inquiries from directors of other marching band asking "how to devise letter tricks". By 1939 "Script Ohio" had become the band's "most popular formation".
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