Humboldt State University Marching Lumberjacks

Marching Lumberjacks
Marching Lumberjacks at Columbus Day Italian Heritage Parade in SF North Beach 2011
Background information

The Marching Lumberjacks are the official student run marching band of Humboldt State University. Established in 1968, The band performs in the scatter band style often associated with Ivy League schools, using humorous routines and scripts during its half-time field shows in Redwood Bowl.

The band plays at numerous campus and community events, marches in parades across California, Oregon and Washington, aids in student recruiting, and performs at home football and basketball games. It's traditional uniform consists of a yellow aluminum logger's hardhat, suspenders, a yellow t-shirt, green work pants, and boots. Major away gigs are broken up into the spring and fall semesters. Spring: Cloverdale Citrus Parade in Cloverdale, CA, St. Patrick's Day Parade in San Francisco, CA, and Battle of the Marching Bands and UC Davis. Fall: Lumberjack Days in Fort Bragg Ca and Italian Herritage Parade in San Francisco, CA.

Ladies and gentlemen
Boys and Girls
Republicans and Democrats
Tea Partiers and Greens...
The Associated Students of Humboldt State
Are unable to prevent your world famous
Humboldt State University Marching Lumberjacks!

The group was depicted marching into the Pacific Ocean in a photograph in the July 1993 National Geographic magazine. Members of the band were cast to portray a high school band in the 2001 feature film The Majestic with Jim Carrey, filmed in Ferndale, California. The band was also featured in a New York Times article about the football experience at Humboldt State.

Drive on Humboldt, on down the field;
Drive on Humboldt, we'll never yield!
Tackle 'em, Sock 'em, Back Field, Rock 'em
We are on the make! Rah Rah Rah!
We must have a victory;
for the green and gold!
So FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT and WIN,
For Humboldt State!

Drive on Humboldt, on down the floor;
Drive on Humboldt, show them the door;
Forward snuff them, Center stuff them;
We are on the make! RAH RAH RAH!
We must have a victory,
for the Green and Gold,
So fight, fight, fight and win
for Humboldt State!