* Green "Yes, connect me!" buttons indicate a featured school
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University of Maine (Orono, ME): "The Maine Stein Song" ("great melody, but it's a drinking song")
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University of Georgia (Athens, GA): "Glory, Glory to Old Georgia" ("uses the rouser 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' as a tune; a passing mention to the University of Colorado, which also uses the tune for its 'Glory, Glory, Colorado' ")
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Clemson University (Clemson, SC): "Clemson Fight Song" ("uses the delightful 'Tiger Rag' as its tune")
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United States Military Academy (West Point, NY): "On, Brave Old Army Team" ("We don't want to forget the Army; a good song with one terrific passage"); "Anchors Aweigh" ("very dynamic and uplifting")
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Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): "Far Above the Cayuga's Wasters" ("This is really an alma mater rather than a fight song, but is such a collegiate classic, how can one overlook it? If played with a lively enough tempo, it becomes a pretty good fight song")
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Furman University (Greenville, SC): "Our Director March" ("These three universities all use this excellent tune, but not always as a fight song; if the melody had a clearer institutional identify, it would be in the top fifteen. Many other schools also use the tune, including the University of Southern California, for its 'Victory Song'"
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Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): "Our Director March" ("These three universities all use this excellent tune, but not always as a fight song; if the melody had a clearer institutional identify, it would be in the top fifteen. Many other schools also use the tune, including the University of Southern California, for its 'Victory Song'"
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Rice University (Houston, TX): "Our Director March" ("These three universities all use this excellent tune, but not always as a fight song; if the melody had a clearer institutional identify, it would be in the top fifteen. Many other schools also use the tune, including the University of Southern California, for its 'Victory Song'"
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Honorable Mentions
Notable or Exceptional Songs in Order of Superiority
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1. Yale University (New Haven, CT): "Down the Field"; "Yale Boola"; "Bingo Eli Yale"
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Source:
"College Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology," Binghamton, The Haworth Press, Inc.
About This List
These songs make opponents cower in fear at sporting events! Well, maybe not, but they'll at least pump up the crowd. William E. Studwell and Bruce R. Schueneman, authors of College Fight Song II, A Supplementary Anthology, rated these college fight songs.
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