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The song is played at all USC sports competitions, as well as many other USC related events, by the Spirit of Troy, the USC Marching Band. During World War II , the song was used to inspire combat-bound troops in the Aleutians Campaign .
The OU marching band plays the fight song when the team takes the field and when the team scores a touchdown, makes a big play, or makes a play in general. They also play it along with other fight songs while the Oklahoma defense is on the field to encourage the crowd to get loud.
It was composed in 1965 by Ronald Broadwell, the director of USC's Spirit of Troy marching band. Variously described as "an incessant stanza of pounding drums and blaring horns," and "reminiscent of rallying the citizenry to guard the perimeter of the ancient Troy city-state," it is traditionally performed at USC Trojan football games following ...
Play Like a Champion Today is a saying written on a sign created by Coach Bud Wilkinson of the University of Oklahoma Sooners in the 1940s to inspire the players as they entered Owen Field.
In the video, the members of OK Go are seen in a field wearing marching band garb. The uniforms were originally from Rochelle Township High School of Rochelle, Illinois. They begin to march and, as the song progresses, the band is joined by members of the University of Notre Dame's Marching Band many of whom rise up camouflaged in ghillie suits ...
In 1983, Michigan marching band alumnus George Anderson found that the song's trio bore a strong resemblance to George Rosenberg's "The Spirit of Liberty March," which was copyrighted in 1898. Jim Henriksen, another band alumnus, wrote "The Authorship of 'The Victors March'" paper covering the various theories about the similarities indicating ...
"Varsity" was first played at a Friday night pep rally held at University Hall on October 6, 1911, where Michigan Marching Band director Eugene Fischer heard it and agreed to play it the very next day during the football team's game against Case. [1] [4] It is likely that Fischer made his own band arrangement of the song overnight
The U of M Marching Band Centennial Book, Minnesota Hats Off to Thee, published in 1992, described the origins of "The Minnesota March": "The need for a more adequate marching song had long been felt at Minnesota, yet nothing was really done about it until University band director Michael Jalma conceived the idea that John Philip Sousa might be persuaded to provide the music.