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"Tiger Rag – The Song That Shakes the Southland" is Clemson University's familiar fight song since 1942 and is performed at Tiger sporting events, pep rallies, and parades. A version has been arranged for the carillon on Clemson's campus.
Clemson's fight song is a rendition of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's Tiger Rag. In 1941, cadet band leader Robert Dean Ross bought the sheet music from an Atlanta music shop, and the band played the song after every touchdown beginning with the 1942 football season .
The Clemson University Tiger Band's rude songbook, "The Unhymnal", has a four-verse parody of the fight song which is distinctly un-politically correct which derides the Georgia Tech coach, football team and cheerleaders. Here's the unofficial 4th verse to the song from the 1970's & 1980's:
In the mid-1930s (around 1935), Dr. Edward Jones Freeman (for whom Freeman Hall, an educational building on Clemson's campus, is named) wrote a fight song for the school called "Tiger Rah," a song which would eventually be reintroduced to the university in the 2002 football season.
The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way" is the fight song of the University of South Carolina (USC). It was adapted from the musical number " Step to the Rear " in the Broadway show How Now, Dow Jones with new lyrics written by Gamecocks football coach Paul Dietzel .
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War Eagle is a battle cry, yell, or motto of Auburn University and supporters of Auburn University sports teams. War Eagle is a greeting or salutation among the Auburn Family (e.g., students, alumni, fans). It is also the title of the university's fight song and the name of the university's golden eagle.
Fight song. The university's fight song is the jazz standard, the "Tiger Rag". Memorial Stadium traditions
I'm a Tar Heel Born. " I'm a Tar Heel Born " is the official fight song of the University of North Carolina. It originated in the late 1800s or early 1900s as an add-on (or "tag") to the school's alma mater, "Hark The Sound". It was sung at a 1903 baseball game against Brown University, and was soon after adapted for the Brown University fight ...
The Clemson–South Carolina football brawl, also known as The Brawl, was an on-field altercation during an NCAA game between football players from the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. The incident took place on November 20, 2004 at the Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.
Down the Field. " Down the Field " is the title of two different fight songs in college football. One is used by Yale University and the University of Tennessee; the other is used by Syracuse University . Yale’s "Down the Field" was written in 1904 by Yale undergraduate Stanleigh P. Friedman, the manager of Yale’s orchestra (music); [1] and ...