• Michigan Teaches Ohio State ‘The Script Ohio’ (1932)

    October 10, 1936. That is the precise date when the Ohio State marching band first performed and thus invented their beloved Script Ohio formation.  But there's a problem with at part of that. Feel free to inform your friends from Columbus of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier.   Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932. Feel free to troll your friends from Columbus because of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier.   Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932.