Past American Legion National Champions
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The American Legion National Championships were held annually from (at the latest) 1921 until 1980, and again since 1997. Currently, the National Championships include senior corps solely. There has not been a Sons of the American Legion championship since 1980.
[edit] 1921
- Champion: AL General George A. Custer Post 28 of Battle Creek, Michigan
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1922
- Champion: Boys of '76 of Racine, Wisconsin
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1923
- Champion: Boys of '76 of Racine, Wisconsin
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1925
- Champion: Boys of '76 of Racine, Wisconsin
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1926
- Champion: Fort Dodge of Fort Dodge, Iowa
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1927
- Champion: Harvey Seed's Rebels of Miami, Florida
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location: Paris, France
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1928
- Champion: Harvey Seed's Rebels of Miami, Florida
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1929
- Champion: Kentucky Colonels of Frankfort, Kentucky
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1930
- Champion: Harvey Seed's Rebels of Miami, Florida
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1931
- Champion: Harvey Seed's Rebels of Miami, Florida
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1932
- Champion: Capitol Post of Salem, Oregon
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1933
- Champion: Herbert F. Akroyd AL Post #132 of Marlboro, Massachusetts
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1939
- Champion: Captain HB Doremus of Hackensack, New Jersey
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location Unknown
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1940
- Champion: Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, Illinois
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score Unknown
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1941
- Champion: Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, Illinois
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 93.75
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue Unknown
- Date: September 15
[edit] 1950
- Champion: New York Skyliners of New York, New York
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 90.366
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1951
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- Fanfare
- Rio Rita
- I Want To Be Happy (from No, No Nanette)
- America The Beautiful
- Yankee Doodle
- Avalon
- When My Baby Smiles At Me
- Jealousy
- Tango Of Love
- Begin The Beguine
- Blue Skies (from Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Valencia
- Three Little Words
- Who'll Take My Place When I'm Gone?
- March Of The Toreadors (from Carmen)
- On The Road To Mandalay
- Score: 93.150
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1952
- Champion: Reilly Raiders of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 93.083
- Location: New York, New York
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1953
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- La Virgen De La Macarena
- The Three Caballeros
- A Gay Ranchero
- Funiculì, Funiculà
- America The Beautiful
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- It Takes Two To Tango
- Zena, Zena, Zena
- Jealousy
- Green Eyes
- Valencia
- Rio Rita
- Chiquita Banana
- Mambo Jambo
- In Spain They Say Sí Sí
- Adios
- Score: 91.833
- Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1954
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- La Virgen De La Macarena
- The Three Caballeros
- A Gay Ranchero
- Funiculì, Funiculà
- America Fanfare
- Of Thee I Sing Baby
- It Takes Two To Tango
- Zena, Zena, Zena
- Malagueña
- Taboo
- El Relicario
- Valencia
- Rio Rita
- Mambo Jambo
- In Spain They Say Sí Sí
- Adios
- Score: 90.366
- Location: Washington, DC
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1955
- Champion: Skokie Indians of Skokie, Illinois
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 89.466
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1957
- Champion: Skokie Indians of Skokie, Illinois
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 90.63
- Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Venue: Atlantic City Convention Hall
- Date: September 14
[edit] 1958
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- España Cañí
- Guadalcanal March (form Victory At Sea)
- Sadie's Shawl
- Peanut Vendor (from A Star Is Born)
- El Relicario
- Zabumba
- Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
- La Cumparsita
- Serenata
- Spanish Fanfare
- Score: 93.78
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Soldier Field
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1959
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- España Cañí
- Guadalcanal March (from Victory at Sea)
- King's Cross Climax
- Granada
- La Virgen De La Macarena
- Zabumba
- Cherry Pink And Blossom White
- La Cumparsita
- Baia
- Fanfare
- Score: 89.41
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue Unknown
- Date: August 22
[edit] 1960
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- España Cañí
- El Torero
- Cachita
- Siboney
- I Love Lucy
- Cuban Pete
- Flamenco Cha-Cha
- See You In September
- Score: 86.06
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue Orange Bowl
- Date: October 16
[edit] 1961
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- España Cañí
- Carmen
- Cachita
- Siboney
- I Love Lucy
- Cuban Pete
- Flamenco Cha-Cha
- Nightingale
- Score: 89.030
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue Unknown
- Date: September 9
[edit] 1962
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- España Cañí
- Carmen
- El Cid
- Cachita
- Siboney
- I Love Lucy
- Cuban Pete
- Flamenco Cha-Cha
- See You In September
- Score: 89.016
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1963
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 84.143
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue Unknown
- Date: September 8
[edit] 1964
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 84.766
- Location: Dallas, Texas
- Venue Unknown
- Date: September 21
[edit] 1965
- Champion: Grey Knight Post Crusaders of Rochester, New York
- Repertoire Devil at 4 O'Clock,Valient Years, Navy Hymn, When Your Lover Has Gone, Goldfinger, Cubana Chant, I Talk To the Trees, In The Still of the Night, Tonight Fanfare
- Score: 82.90
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Venue: Prelims, Madison High School Field Finals Multnomah Stadium
- Date: August 22
[edit] 1966
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- Malagueña
- Chim Chim Chiree (from Mary Poppins)
- I Got Plenty Of Nothin' (from Porgy And Bess)
- Granada
- Valencia
- Strangers
- Score: 83.650
- Location: Washington, DC
- Venue: District of Columbia Stadium
- Date: August 28
[edit] 1967
- Champion: Connecticut Hurricanes of Shelton, Connecticut
- Repertoire:
- You Gotta Start Off Each Day With A Song
- Just One Of Those Songs
- Under The Double Eagle
- National Emblem
- America, I Love You
- Rhapsody In Blue
- Fiddler On The Roof
- Return Of The Magnificent Seven
- Score: 91.983
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue Fenway Park
- Date: August 27
[edit] 1968
- Champion: Sunrisers of Orangetown, New York
- Repertoire:
- Conquest (from Captain from Castile)
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
- Going Out Of My HEad
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- An American In Paris
- The Joker
- Dulcinea (from from Man of La Mancha)
- Man Of La Mancha
- The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
- Score: 77.966
- Location: New Orleans. Louisiana
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1969
- Champion: Yankee Rebels of Baltimore, Maryland
- Repertoire:
- Dixie
- Waiting For The Robert E. Lee
- I'm Alabama Bound
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Am I Blue (from The Hard Way)
- Birth Of the Blues
- Camptown Races
- Requiem For An Era
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Score: 81.25
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue Unknown
- Date Unknown
[edit] 1970
- Champion: Yankee Rebels of Baltimore, Maryland
- Repertoire:
- Waiting For The Robert E. Lee
- I'm Alabama Bound
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Am I Blue (from The Hard Way)
- Birth Of the Blues
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Requiem For An Era
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Score: 80.20
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Venue Unknown
- Date: August 30
[edit] 1971
- Champion: Yankee Rebels of Baltimore, Maryland
- Repertoire Unknown
- Score: 83.35
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue Unknown
- Date: September 1
[edit] 1972
- Champion: Rochester Crusaders of Rochester, New York
- Repertoire:
- Troika (from Lieutenant Kije Suite)
- Bacchanale (from Samson and Delilah)
- Jesus Christ Superstar Medley
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic
- Theme From Ironsides
- Strangers When We Meet
- For All We Know
- Score: 82.85
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue Soldier Field
- Date: August 20
[edit] 1974
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- Man Of La Mancha
- Sweet Gypsy Rose
- Soul Train
- MacArthur Park
- Flamenco Cha-Cha
- Harmonica Man
- Score: 87.35
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue Unknown
- Date: August 19
[edit] 1975
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- Conquest (from Captain From Castile)
- TSOP (from Soul Train)
- Opening Theme (from Chico and the Man)
- MacArthur Park
- Flamenco Cha-Cha
- Closing Theme (from Chico and the Man)
- Score: 89.30
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue Unknown
- Date: August 16
[edit] 1980
- Champion: Caballeros of Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Repertoire:
- Malagueña
- La Bamba
- Celebration Suite
- El Cid
- Don't Cry For Me, Argentina (form Evita)
- Hoedown (form Rodeo)
- Score: 86.60
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue Unknown
- Date: August 16
[edit] 1997
- Champion: Empire Statemen of Rochester, New York
- Repertoire:
- Miss Saigon
- Overture
- The Heat Is On In Saigon
- Sun And Monn
- Dragon
- The Fall Of Saigon
- Miss Saigon
- Score: 90.10
- Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Venue Lackawanna County Stadium
- Date: August 9
[edit] 2001
- Champion: Syracuse Brigadiers of Syracuse, New York
- Repertoire:
- Jazz Street, After Hours
- Seven Year Itch
- Come Back To Me (from On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever)
- God Bless The Child
- MacArthur Park
- Jazz Street, After Hours
- Score: 93.15
- Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Lackawanna County Stadium
- Date: August 18
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