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Victory for MSU", formerly "MSU Fight Song", is the official fight song of Michigan State University. It was created in early 1915 (and copyrighted in 1919), when MSU was known as Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.). An MSU cheerleader, Francis Irving Lankey, along with lyricist Arthur Sayles, created the song. [1]
In 1927, Leonard Falcone started as director of the band. Falcone was an Italian immigrant and the brother of University of Michigan band director Nicholas Falcone.Many of the band's traditions were established during his 40-year tenure and the band changed from a 65-member ROTC auxiliary into an adjunct of the new department that would become today's College of Music.
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Criminal charges were filed the last time Michigan and Michigan State football met in Ann Arbor.. Two years later, security changes have been made. In 2022, in a 29-7 Wolverines victory over the ...
It truly is versatile music for all occasions. The bar brawl has been memorialized in country songs countless times, alongside the subjects of prison, trucks, trains, and mama. But which are the best?
A fight song is a rousing short song associated with a sports team. [1] 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.
The song was written by Wayne State music professor and band director Graham T. Overgard at the request of team owner G.A. Richards, who asked him to write a fight song for the team.
It was composed by two Michigan students, J. Fred Lawton and Earl Vincent Moore, [1] while they were riding a street car in Detroit in 1911. [2] Lawton had graduated from Michigan in June 1911, and met Moore in Detroit that October. Moore suggested to Lawton that the university needed a new fight song, and that the two of them should create it.