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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]
An analysis of 65 college fight songs by FiveThirtyEight identified words commonly used in the lyrics of these songs, including fight, win, and victory. [4] Other common elements of fight song lyrics are mentioning the team's colors, spelling out the school's name, and using the words "hail" and "rah."
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.
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A year ago, Tucker was riding high. A victory over Michigan pushed the Spartans to 8-0 and third in the national rankings. A whopping 10-year, $95 million contract extension was in the works as ...
The University of Michigan's Flint campus selected "The Victors" as their sports nickname in an unofficial student vote in 2008. [13] [14] [15] Michigan alumnus Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, often had the White House band play the fight song prior to state events instead of "Hail to the Chief."
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"We Don't Give a Damn for the Whole State of Michigan" is a song long associated with opponents of sports teams from the American state of Michigan.Its simple lyrics, written in the first person plural, repeatedly express the indifference of its performers to the entirety of the state of Michigan and declare their place of origin to be some other location.