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"The Cougar Song," often colloquially referred to as "The Cougar Fight Song," "The BYU Fight Song," or "Rise and Shout, The Cougars Are Out," is the school fight song of Brigham Young University. It is often played at BYU sporting events, especially at BYU football games.
The "Cougar Fight Song" is the official college fight song of the University of Houston (UH). It was written by Marion Ford with lyrics by Forest Fountain, both UH students. It is typically performed by the Spirit of Houston. [1] The "Cougar Fight Song" was popularized by Ed Gerlach, a UH music professor, and his orchestra in the 1950s.
The song achieved some notoriety for being banned by the BBC, [5] despite which it spent eight weeks in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 33. [6] The reason for the ban was reported in the musical press, saying Saturday Nite at the Duck Pond was "a travesty of a major classical work". [ 4 ]
The Spirit of Houston's primary repertoire includes the following: "Cougar Fight Song", the university's official fight song "Eat 'Em Up", a secondary fight song of the university was originally written by director Bill Moffit, and subsequently used by most other college marching bands today
By the 1950s all sports teams were known as the Cougars and it was decided that having a person in a costume was a better mascot form than live animals. The athletics mascot, Cosmo the Cougar, was created by Dwayne Stevenson, and made his first appearance before BYU fans on October 15, 1953. [6] The school's fight song is the "Cougar Fight Song".
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University of Houston logo. Phi Slama Jama was a name given to the men's college basketball teams of the Houston Cougars from 1981 to 1984. Coined by former Houston Post sportswriter Thomas Bonk, [1] the nickname was quickly adopted by the players and even appeared on team warmup suits by the middle of the 1982–83 season.
In the plotline of that film, "The Fight Song" is subsequently adopted by a group of Thai communist partisans as a battle cry. [3] [4] [5] In 2013, new uniforms for the Washington State Cougars men's basketball team were debuted which featured the lyrics to "The Fight Song" on the backs of both home and away jerseys. [6]