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An analysis of 65 college fight songs by FiveThirtyEight identified words commonly used in the lyrics of these songs, including fight, win, and victory. [4] Other common elements of fight song lyrics are mentioning the team's colors, spelling out the school's name, and using the words "hail" and "rah."
It was written in 1989 by Dr. John Hugo, the Chairman of the Department of Music and Humanities. [1] The fight song is played by Liberty's marching band, "The Spirit of the Mountain", at home football games after the home team scores points. After a victory, the Liberty Flames football team sings the song to the fans on the student side ...
The Marching Salukis began as a military-style marching band, and began evolving into its present form around 1964 under the directorship of Donald Canedy. Tuxedo jackets and homburg hats were adopted as the uniform, arrangements of jazz , big band and rock music started to come into use, and a loose approach to marching drills was taken.
"Indiana, Our Indiana" is the official school fight song [citation needed] of Indiana University.The lyrics were written by IU band director, Russell P. Harker, to the tune of the trio from "The Viking March" by Karl King, conductor of the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band.
The song was not altogether original with us, but was undoubtedly adapted from some other song but we were unable to definitively designate this song, although later on we did discover that there had been published a song, which at that time was out of print, called 'La Hula Boola,' and the air was quite similar but the time was different.
Georgetown's fight song is rare among U.S. university fight songs for mentioning other colleges by name, generally rivals of Georgetown in the early to mid-20th century. [6] Specifically, it mentions Yale University , Harvard University , Princeton University , College of the Holy Cross , the United States Naval Academy , and Cornell University ...
The song was the freshman class' winning entry in the university's annual song and stunt fest in May 1930, [3] [7] [8] and was soon played by the UI pep band at football games at MacLean Field. Previously, the Vandals had used a variation of " On, Wisconsin " as its fight song.
I certainly understand the opposition to including lyrics in the main university articles, although I disagree with it, but there is certainly no reason to remove the lyrics to fight songs from articles such as War Eagle (note there is content discussing the fight song rather than just the lyrics alone). Article such as this, which describe the ...