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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 .
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.
Formed in 1896, the program has an all-time record of 790–466–44, with a bowl record of 28–22. Clemson was a College Football Playoff finalist in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019, defeating Alabama in both 2016 and 2018 to secure the national title.
A fight song is a rousing short song associated with a sports team. The term is most common in the United States and Canada. In Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand, these songs are called the team anthem , team song , or games song.
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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".
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:
For Boston" is the traditional fight song of Boston College and Boston College High School. It was written and composed by T.J. Hurley, a member of the Boston College Class of 1885.
The fight song that the band plays after touchdowns is the "Tiger Rag", a common fight song for schools with Tiger mascots. Auburn , Clemson , and LSU all use the "Tiger Rag" in some capacity. Athletics [ edit ]
The Battle for the Rag is the name given to the LSU–Tulane football rivalry. It is an American college football rivalry game [3] played by the LSU Tigers football team of Louisiana State University and the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University .