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re: What has your team "borrowed" from others?
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:30 pm to nvasil1
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:30 pm to nvasil1
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Not a Gator fan, but "We Are The Boys From Old Florida" is based on "I'm Strong For Chicago" from the University of Chicago.
Nebraska and Toledo use the same tune and similar lyrics, but I believe it first appeared in a UChicago song book in the late 1890s.
Somewhat common, OU stole their fight song from UNC (IIRC).
While Wright state the exact same fight song as Arkansas with difference lyrics.
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Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:43 pm to DaleDenton
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Somewhat common, OU stole their fight song from UNC (IIRC).
Yeah Boomer Sooner is a hybrid of UNC's "Tar Heel Born" and Yale's "Boola Boola".
The strangest example I've seen of song borrowing is Cal and Georgia Tech. They played in the 1929 Rose Bowl and since then each school has played a fight song of the same tune; "White & Gold" for GT and "Stanford Jonah" for Cal.
Neither school claims authorship. I remember researching a few years back and could find nothing about where the tune came from.
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