Mississippi State University’s Famous Maroon Band has won the Heisman-equivalent of awards handed out biannually to the top college marching bands.

The group is the most recent recipient of the national Sudler Trophy, considered the highest honor a collegiate marching band can receive. Presented every two years by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, the trophy is awarded to a college or university marching band demonstrating “the highest of musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and which has made important contributions to the advancement of the performance standards of college marching bands.”

“The band’s contributions to our university community reach far beyond the stadium or performance field. Its members are leaders in the classroom, ambassadors for our institu

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