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According to University of Michigan music historian Joseph Dobos, "The Victors" had all but disappeared from campus in the 1900s, and the most popular songs at football games and pep rallies were the alma mater, "The Yellow and Blue", and a modified version of "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" that included Michigan-specific lyrics. [4]
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."
Washington began playing the song at home games for the 1938 season. "Hail to the Redskins" is the second oldest fight song for a professional American football team; the oldest fight song is "Go! You Packers! Go!", composed in 1931 for the Green Bay Packers. The original fight song lyrics [2] are as follows: Hail to the Redskins! Hail Vic-to-ry!
"Hooray for Auburn!" (sometimes Hurrah for Auburn! or simply Hooray!) is the fight song of Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, United States.The melody and basic wording of "Hooray for Auburn" have been adopted for use in the fight songs of many schools in the United States, including Hoover High School ("Hooray for Hoover"), Sheffield High School ("Hurrah For Sheffield") and Prattville ...
March On!" replaced "Cheer for the Blue and White" as the school's primary fight song. "March On!" is performed by the Indiana State basketball band at every home basketball game, and by the Marching Sycamores at every home football game. When Indiana State wins, the band alters the fight song to have a waltz feel, which is known as "Waltz On!".
It is also played as a secondary fight song at Columbia University. [1] Another version was created by popular songwriters Lew Brown (lyrics) and Harry Akst (music) for the 1934 film Stand Up and Cheer! starring Shirley Temple. It is the fight song of: Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, [2] Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, [3]
The Bleacher Report named the song the number one college fight song in 2011. [1] In 2014, the USA Today College Football Fan Index named "The Victors" the number one fight song, [2] but it fell to third place in 2015. [18] While in 2015, NFL.com named it number two on its top 15 of college fight songs. [19]
Tee Fee Crane and "Davy" in the 1910s "Give My Regards to Davy" is Cornell University's primary fight song.The song's lyrics were written in 1905 by Cornell alumni Charles E. Tourison (1905), W. L. Umstad (1906), and Bill Forbes (1906), a trio of roommates at Beta Theta Pi, and set to the tune of George M. Cohan's "Give My Regards to Broadway".