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University of South Carolina[edit]

For the University of South Carolina, Also sprach Zarathustra and the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey" are the same thing. — Michael J 21:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2001 would be a stadium song, not a fight song, as it was not written especially for the University of South Carolina. See into text to the list. Rublamb (talk) 17:41, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Colorado State Fight Song[edit]

Can anyone verify if the name of the Colorado State University fight song is called "Colorado State University"?

I have corrected the song title to "Stalwart Rams" as per the Wikipedia article on the university's fight songRublamb (talk) 17:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on fight song removal[edit]

Please see Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Fight songs for a proposal to clarify the inclusion of fight songs and the list at this article. violet/riga (t) 11:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some of these aren't Fight Songs at all - they're Alma Maters. Eg. "The Yellow and Blue" for Michigan and "MSU Shadows" for Michigan State jump out. UVA's "The Good Old Song" is identified as an Alma Mater. I suspect there are others. Shouldn't they either be removed from the list (and possibly imported to a new list on the Alma Mater article page) or tagged like the UVA alma mater is here? Fladrif (talk) 19:37, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think adding citations is the solution, meaning each of these entries needs to be check against a reliable source. I have removed some stadium songs and am fixing any errors that I see. Please do the same.@ Rublamb (talk) 17:31, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Eat 'Em Up, etc.[edit]

Maybe there could be a section for "generic" fight songs that are often used. Or maybe there already is such an article, I don't know. The "Eat 'Em Up, Eat 'Em Up, Rah-Rah-Rah!" thing is usually used in conjunction with a four-line variation on the Army bugle Mess Call, between its third and fourth (last) lines. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 03:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting proposal[edit]

The vast majority of this article is a list of college fight songs, not an article about fight songs. I propose that the article is split into an actual article detailing what a fight song is, its applications, history ect., and a separate article: List of college fight songs. MagentaCat1 (talk) 06:54, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]