The Princeton University Band - Photo Album

The Annual Flasher Routine

The flasher routine is a traditional highlight of the home Big Three game (Princeton vs. Hahvahd or yale). To the accompaniment of Also Sprach Zarathustra, the Band seniors (and sometimes officers) flash an anagram associated with the show.....

.....which unscrambles into a somewhat more meaningful message.....

.....leading to an orgasmic finale.

Each year's anagram is the result of several weeks of work, and is kept top-secret until the show. During the Band's 75th Birthday in 1994, even one of the flashers apparently didn't know the anagram....

Being a presidential election year, the anagram for the 1988 Hahvahd game was, of course, "Duke Bring Mace." (Hey, you should see the ones we don't use!)

And even more flashing, from Yale '91. (Band members are natural exhibitionists.)

For the University's Bicenquinqagenary Celebration in 1996 (that's "250th", to rest of us), our leading anagram during show writing was "MASS BIRTHDAY RAVE", which unscrambles to "HARVARD BITE MY ASS" (of course). After censoring, here's what we actually performed:

In 1997, all Princeton football games were "away," as Palmer Stadium had been demolished to make way for a new stadium....

We celebrated the year on the road with the PUB 1997 World Tour. The "home" game against Yale was in Giants Stadium, at the New Jersey Meadowlands.....

....making these folks among the select few who have flashed in Giants Stadium.

For our first flasher routine in the new Princeton Stadium...

the message was simple...

...and to the point.