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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."
"Down the Field" is also the title of the official fight song for Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York. [7] However, this is an entirely different song, written in 1914. The words were written by Ralph Murphy, Class of 1916; the music was composed by C. Harold Lewis, Class of 1915. [ 8 ]
The ASU fight song, Hi Hi Yikas, is sung to the tune of the German folk song Bergvagabunden (Mountain Vagabond). Hi Hi Yikas. Hi-Hi-y-ike-us Nobody like us, We are the mountaineers, mountaineers, mountaineers, Always a-winning Always a-grinning Always a-feeling fine You bet, hey Go Apps! Fight Apps! Go, fight, win Apps! Audio Link
"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! Braves on the warpath, Fight for old D.C.
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".
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 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.