1953


"But if people began noticing in late'52, they started to take a harder look in '53. At a show in Reading, Pennsylvania, Blessed Sacrament, which by then had taken the name The Golden Knights, defeated a fine line-up of Pennsylvania competitors Nusa O'Hara Todd, Osmond, West Reading, and Liberty Bell - to post its first win ever. Father Garner was ecstatic - the Corps celebrated its success with a swim at Seaside Heights the next day. - from Tim O'Brien's A (not so brief) HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS