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The song was created as part of a contest sponsored by the school newspaper, then known as The Toreador. R.C. Marshall, the editor of the 1931 La Ventana was chosen as the winner and given a $25 prize. [1] In the next year, Goin' Band Director Harry LeMaire rewrote the music to the song. [2]
Fight, Raiders, Fight is the fight song of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.It was written by Vic Williams and John J. Tatgenhorst in Lubbock. [1]The song was written for the Matadors, the original name of teams representing the school (known at the time as Texas Technological College).
The Matador Song was written by Harry Lemaire and R.C. Marshall. Lemaire was band director at Tech from 1925–34. He composed the music. Marshall, editor of the La Ventana, wrote the words in 1930. The words and title represent Texas Tech's original athletic teams' name of Matadors.
The Matador band at the Texas Tech-Loyola Parade in 1934. The Goin' Band from Raiderland, originally known as The Matador Band, is nearly as old as Texas Tech itself. Under the direction of W. Waghorne, it performed at the opening football game in October 1925, fielding between 21 and 25 members. [2] [3]
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season.The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus.
The twister stretched one-third of a mile wide as it bore down on the small town of Matador, Texas. As it tore through the west side of the town, about 80 miles northeast of Lubbock, it carried ...
Residents in Matador, Texas, are coming together and slowly picking up the pieces after a deadly tornado ripped through the small central Texas town late Wednesday night. ... Science & Tech ...
Raider Red is a Wild West character with an oversized cowboy hat. He carries two guns which he fires into the air after Texas Tech scores. [1] Jim Gaspard, a member of the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume based on a character created by Lubbock, Texas, cartoonist and former mayor Dirk West. [2]