The STATEside crew pulled together some historic photos of the marching band in action over the years, with some help from the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives.
Photos: Big Red Marching Machine, then and now
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Scheduling snafu strikes alumni Homecoming wedding
These two Illinois State alums are such die-hard Redbird fans that they deliberately planned their October wedding so it wouldn’t be the same weekend as Homecoming. They ended up doing the exact opposite.
Video: Deaf student helps power Big Red Marching Machine
When the Big Red Marching Machine takes the field at Hancock Stadium on Saturday for the last regular-season football game of the year, there will be 275 color guard members, dancers and musicians in its ranks – including a trombone player named Mark Reppen. Reppen, a deaf sophomore from Alsip, has been playing trombone since
