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Go red, go white, go team, fight fight! Please post a fight song, favorite or otherwise. Here are a few of mine:




Posted - November 22, 2019

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  • 33814
      November 22, 2019 6:33 AM MST
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  • 13277
    I've seen Atlanta Braves fans do that chop as well. I know there's no intentional connection, but it looks too much like the Nazi Sieg Heil salute for my taste. To me, it looks the same but with the hand turned sideways.
      November 24, 2019 12:13 PM MST
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  • 44543
    This post was edited by Element 99 at November 24, 2019 11:41 AM MST
      November 22, 2019 6:50 AM MST
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  • 13277
    LOL.
      November 22, 2019 8:17 AM MST
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  • 17565






      November 22, 2019 5:27 PM MST
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  • 13277
    I've always loved that Georgia Tech song. One of Cornell's best football coaches in the modern Ivy League era (since 1957) was GT alum Maxie Baughan, c. 1983-88. This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 24, 2019 5:06 PM MST
      November 24, 2019 12:03 PM MST
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  • 17565
    In the Cornell song, is Pikers a reference to the fraternity?
      November 22, 2019 5:33 PM MST
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  • 13277
    No, although Cornell has a Pi Kappa Alpha chapter. Piker was a slang term for a freshman or a cheapskate. Tee Fee Crane was a professor and Davy Hoy was an administrator c. 1900. You inspired me to google it, and here's what Wikipedia has about the song:

    "Give My Regards to Davy" is Cornell University's primary fight song. The song's lyrics were written in 1905 by 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". The song refers to a fictional encounter between an anonymous student and David Fletcher "Davy" Hoy (for whom Hoy Field is named), the registrar and secretary for the committee on student conduct, and Thomas Frederick "Tee Fee" Crane, the Professor of Languages and the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences revolving around the student's expulsion on account of binge drinking. David Hoy was known for his ferocity as a strict disciplinarian. Professor Crane, on the other hand, was generally well liked among students. "Piker" is said to be a historical slang term for a freshman, perhaps from the more general term "piker" meaning tightwad or cheapskate. "Theodore Zinck's" was a bar in downtown Ithaca that has since closed. Its legend still lives on in the weekly event for seniors "Zinck's Night", which is celebrated worldwide in October by Cornellians.
    This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 24, 2019 5:04 PM MST
      November 24, 2019 12:31 PM MST
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  • 44543
    What's with all of the    long spaces between words?
      November 24, 2019 2:24 PM MST
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  • 13277
    It was a cut-and-paste from Wikipedia, and those spaces follow blue link words 
      November 24, 2019 2:26 PM MST
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  • 23410
    I know my answer does not apply but the word "team" made me think of THE only song by Ed Sheeran that I like. It was the first song I heard from him and, to me, he's gone downhill ever since.
    :)

    "The A-Team"






    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 24, 2019 2:24 PM MST
      November 24, 2019 11:38 AM MST
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  • 53394



    ~
      November 24, 2019 12:42 PM MST
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  • 13277
    An excellent song. I also love the Navy Hymn.
      November 24, 2019 12:52 PM MST
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  • 53394
    (I’m not sure the Navy calls theirs a hymn.)
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      November 24, 2019 1:00 PM MST
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  • 13277
    I have no idea, but it's also known as "Anchors Aweigh."
      November 24, 2019 1:06 PM MST
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  • 53394

    Anchors Aweigh" is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy and march song of the United States Navy. It was composed in 1906 by Charles A. Zimmermann with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles. When he composed "Anchors Aweigh," Zimmermann was a lieutenant and had been bandmaster of the United States Naval Academy Bandsince 1887. Miles was Midshipman First Class at the Academy, in the class of 1907, and had asked Zimmermann to assist him in composing a song for that class, to be used as a football march. Another Academy Midshipman, Royal Lovell (class of 1926), later wrote what would be adopted into the song as its third verse.

    Anchors Aweigh! AnchorsAweigh.jpeg
      November 24, 2019 1:09 PM MST
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  • 44543
    We sang it as recruits when we went through the tunnel that went under the road between one end the the base and the other. I got to teach it to my recruits. I wonder if they still sing it. Fond memories. What's with the   spaces between    some of the words? Copy/paste?
      November 24, 2019 2:29 PM MST
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  • 53394
    It's a cut and paste job, so I can only surmise that the format or layout of the source was coded differently vis-a-vis spacing or font or pica.
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      November 24, 2019 3:43 PM MST
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  • 13277
    As hard as it must be for the teeming millions to believe, I actually made a factual error. The Navy hymn is Eternal Father, probably considered a hymn because it refers to and is a plea to God. Anchors Aweigh is the Naval Academy's fight song.


    And here is your Marines hymn, Halls of Montezuma:
    This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 24, 2019 4:04 PM MST
      November 24, 2019 3:44 PM MST
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  • 53394
    In addition to being the US Naval Academy's fight song, Anchors Aweigh is also the Naval service's official song. 

    The Marines' Hymn is entitled exactly that way; The Marines' Hymn. The Halls of Montezuma is not its title, that is, however, part of the first line of its lyrics. 
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      November 24, 2019 4:31 PM MST
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  • 44543
    I always liked that song.
      November 24, 2019 2:25 PM MST
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