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Title: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Chris H82 on December 13, 2022, 11:08:08 PM
I was looking through some of the tributes to Mike Leach today (a complex person, for sure), and there was one post-game clip where a reporter asked him about his favorite Halloween candy.  While he pontificated on that, the other part of the split screen was showing the Mississippi State football team gathering with their fans to celebrate the victory, and their band was playing their Alma Mater - which uses the same tune as "Far above Cayuga's waters".  That got me wondering - how many other schools use that tune?  I think I heard somewhere that N. Carolina does, and now I know that Mississippi State does, but who else?
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: David Harding on December 14, 2022, 12:10:12 AM
Quote from: Chris H82I was looking through some of the tributes to Mike Leach today (a complex person, for sure), and there was one post-game clip where a reporter asked him about his favorite Halloween candy.  While he pontificated on that, the other part of the split screen was showing the Mississippi State football team gathering with their fans to celebrate the victory, and their band was playing their Alma Mater - which uses the same tune as "Far above Cayuga's waters".  That got me wondering - how many other schools use that tune?  I think I heard somewhere that N. Carolina does, and now I know that Mississippi State does, but who else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Above_Cayuga%27s_Waters has at leas a partial list.  I've been told that it is the most-copied alma mater around, but I don't have a reference for that.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on December 14, 2022, 07:45:41 AM
Quote from: David Harding
Quote from: Chris H82I was looking through some of the tributes to Mike Leach today (a complex person, for sure), and there was one post-game clip where a reporter asked him about his favorite Halloween candy.  While he pontificated on that, the other part of the split screen was showing the Mississippi State football team gathering with their fans to celebrate the victory, and their band was playing their Alma Mater - which uses the same tune as "Far above Cayuga's waters".  That got me wondering - how many other schools use that tune?  I think I heard somewhere that N. Carolina does, and now I know that Mississippi State does, but who else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Above_Cayuga%27s_Waters has at leas a partial list.  I've been told that it is the most-copied alma mater around, but I don't have a reference for that.

I know Lehigh does/did.  My high school also used it.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Trotsky on December 14, 2022, 12:03:35 PM
Between Cornell, Michigan, and Notre Dame you've got 75% of all high schools' fight songs east of the Mississippi.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: underskill on December 14, 2022, 12:27:18 PM
Vandy does.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Weder on December 14, 2022, 03:23:39 PM
Quote from: TrotskyBetween Cornell, Michigan, and Notre Dame you've got 75% of all high schools' fight songs east of the Mississippi.

Unpopular opinion: I'd prefer to hear the New Cornell Fight Song a lot more than Davy.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: marty on December 14, 2022, 06:03:52 PM
Quote from: TrotskyBetween Cornell, Michigan, and Notre Dame you've got 75% of all high schools' fight songs east of the Mississippi.

Does someone else use the Give My Regards to Broadway tune as a fight song?
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on December 14, 2022, 06:26:36 PM
Quote from: TrotskyBetween Cornell, Michigan, and Notre Dame you've got 75% of all high schools' fight songs east of the Mississippi.

My high school's fight song was "On, Wisconsin!"   We had a second one that was a Penn State fight song.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: French Rage on December 25, 2022, 05:54:12 PM
Quote from: Chris H82but who else?

Kellerman's Resort.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Trotsky on December 27, 2022, 10:09:25 AM
Quote from: French Rage
Quote from: Chris H82but who else?

Kellerman's Resort.
Nobody puts Ezra in a corner.
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on December 27, 2022, 02:44:56 PM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: French Rage
Quote from: Chris H82but who else?

Kellerman's Resort.
Nobody puts Ezra in a corner.

Yeah, but can A.D. White hold him over his head?
Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: rmandel on December 27, 2022, 03:13:13 PM
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Title: Re: Other schools that use "our" Alma Mater tune?
Post by: Trotsky on December 28, 2022, 12:19:35 PM
Quote from: rmandelhttps://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/45c0426e-3b3f-4f8b-8673-0b1c49a2b1d3
End the Right
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