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unusual facts about fight song



Francis Craig

"Dynamite!" now the official fight song of Vanderbilt University, was written by Craig in 1922, when Craig was an undergraduate student at the University.

Oil Thigh

The Oil Thigh is the name given to the anthem and fight song of Queen's University and its sports teams, the Queen's Gaels.

Summer Tour 2007 Final Time – Kotoba no Chikara

Footages of Arashi's "Fight Song" performance while bungee jumping for their concert at Yokohama Arena (July 13, 2007) were also included in Disc 2.

Thomas Frederick Crane

Today, he is remembered in Cornell's fight song, "Give My Regards to Davy", whose lyrics begin "Give my regards to Davy / Remember me to Tee Fee Crane. "Tee Fee Crane" was a nickname given to Crane by students.


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Aggie War Hymn

One night in 1920, several of the Aggie Yell Leaders heard Wilson's quartet singing the song at a Bryan,TX theater during the intermission of a movie and they asked him to let them submit it in a contest for a new fight song to be held that fall.

Arizona Wildcats

The school colors are cardinal red and navy blue, and the official fight song is "Fight! Wildcats! Fight!", though "Bear Down, Arizona!" is more commonly used and "Bear Down" is the university's slogan.

Auburn High School Tigers

For the 1955 football season, Auburn High used the Alabama Polytechnic Institute fight song "War Eagle".

Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers

Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers also sang the 1959 Chicago White Sox fight song, "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox", and Tom Fouts was the voice of Green Giant's Little Sprout.

Corinne Griffith

During her marriage to Marshall, she composed the lyrics to the Redskins fight song "Hail to the Redskins" which became one of the most famous football anthems.

David Holsinger

The fourth movement, titled "Chasing the Band Bus on MO240" includes "Washington and Lee Swing", the fight song for Fayette High School.

FSU Hymns

Mission Control used the Fight Song to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.

Joby Harris

In late 2009, he wrote and co-performed an independently released fight song for professional NFL football team the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Johnson County, Georgia

The school fight song is the theme from the movie Hang 'Em High.

Joseph N. Macaluso, Sr.

He attended local schools in New Orleans, including Martin Behrman School in Algiers and later St. Aloysius High School in New Orleans where he was a band member for four years under the direction of Professor Taverna, composer of the schools famous fight song.

Minnesota Fight

Rickard's fight song can still be heard at Minnesota Golden Gopher athletic events, but is now known as "Minnesota Fight".

Our Minnesota

"Our Minnesota" was one of two winners of a 1925 contest to find an additional fight song for the University of Minnesota.

Paul Dietzel

During the first game of the 1968 season, Dietzel heard the school's band play the Broadway show tune "Step to the Rear" and decided that it should be the school's new fight song, and proceeded to write a new set of lyrics to the tune.

Ska-P

It did not sell many copies compared with later efforts, but it gave the group recognition, especially for the song "Como un rayo," a fight song for the soccer team Rayo Vallecano, which became fairly popular in Vallecas.

Syracuse University Marching Band

As is the tradition, the SUMB also sings the words to the fight song, as well as performs the Syracuse University Alma Mater both instrumentally, and vocally in four-part harmony.

The Victors

UM alumnus Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, often had the Naval band play the fight song prior to state events instead of "Hail to the Chief".

To the Top

"Southern Mississippi to the Top", the official fight song of the University of Southern Mississippi

UC Davis California Aggie Marching Band-uh!

The band's catalog is composed of its marching songs, such as the Aggie Fight song, as well as renditions of popular rock songs such as Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise", Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein", and Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", among many others.

Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

The athletic teams are cheered on by the school song "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and the fight song "Fight, Wyoming, Fight".

Ziggy Modeliste

In 2006, he released the single "Let's Get Fired Up" described as "A Fight Song for Our Saints." In 2007, he participated in Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, contributing his version of Domino's "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday", with Herbie Hancock and Renard Poche.