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Fight song

In both professional and amateur sports, fight songs are a popular way for fans to cheer for their team. Fight songs are especially popular for American football, both at the college and professional levels.

Hundreds of colleges have fight songs, some of which are almost a century old. Fight songs are laden with history; in singing a fight song, fans feel part of a large, time-honored tradition.

List of fight songs

College sports

• University of Nebraska Hail Varsity
• University of North Carolina Tar Heels: I'm a Tar Heel Born
• University of Oklahoma Boomer Sooner
• Virginia Tech Hokies: Tech Triumph
• Allegheny Pep Song (Allegheny College)
• Cheer for Old Amherst (Amherst College)
• Glory, Glory to Old Amherst (Amherst University)
• Glory to Ole Auburn (Auburn University)
• For Boston (Boston College)
• The Brown Cheering Song (Brown University)
• Forward Falcons (Bowling Green State)
• Ever True to Brown (Brown University)
• Fight Song (Clemson University)
• Colorado State University (Colorado State University)
• The Big Red Team (Cornell University)
• Fight for Cornell (Cornell University)
• As the Backs Go Tearing By (Dartmouth College)
• Duke Blue and White (Duke University)
• Fordham Ram (Fordham University)
• Hail the White and Purple (Furman University)
• Sons of Georgetown (Georgetown University)
• Harvardiana (Harvard University)
• Ten Thousand Men of Harvard (Harvard University)
• Football Song (Haverford College)
• Indiana Fight! (Indiana University)
• Fight for LSU (Louisiana State University)
• Sons of Marshall (Marshall University)
• Oh! Didn't He Ramble (New Mexico State University)
• Old New York University (New York University)
• Oberlin Pep Song (Oberlin College)
• The Buckeye Battle Cry (Ohio State University)
• Ohio State (Ohio State University)
• Rally, Ohio (Ohio State University)
• Fight On, State (Pennsylvania State University)
• The Nittany Lion (Pennsylvania State University)
• Victory (Pennsylvania State University)
• The Orange and the Black (Princeton University)
• The Princeton Cannon Song (Princeton University)
• Princeton Forward March (Princeton University)
• Princeton Jungle March (Princeton University)
• Ramble Song (Princeton University)
• Hail Purdue (Purdue University)
• Come Join the Band (Stamford University)
• Down, Down the Field (Syracuse University)
• The Saltine Warrior (Syracuse University)
• The Aggie War Hymn (Texas A&M University)
• Brown and Blue Forever (Tufts University)
• Semper Paratus (United States Coast Guard Academy)
• Yea, Alabama (University of Alabama)
• Fight! Wildcats! Fight! (University of Arizona)
• Razorback Pep Song (University of Arkansas)
• Big C (University of California at Berkeley)
• California Indian Song (University of California at Berkeley)
• Sons of California (University of California at Berkeley)
• The Stanford Jonah (University of California at Berkeley)
• Fight CU, Down the Field (University of Colorado)
• Ah Well I Remember (University of Colorado)
• Glory, Glory, Colorado (University of Colorado)
• The Orange and Blue (University of Florida)
• Cheer Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Illinois Loyalty (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• I'm a Jayhawk (University of Kansas)
• Hail to U of L (University of Louisville)
• Maryland, My Maryland (University of Maryland)
• Go! Tigers, Go! (University of Memphis)
• Varsity (University of Michigan)
• Win for Michigan (University of Michigan)
• Tiger Song of U of M (University of Missouri at Columbia)
• North Dakota U (University of North Dakota)
• Fight, North Texas (University of North Texas)
• Mighty Oregon (University of Oregon)
• Cheer Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania)
• Fight On, Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Pitt Panther (University of Pittsburgh)
• Pittsburgh's Big Team (University of Pittsburgh)
• Rhode Island Cheer Song (University of Rhode Island)
• Carolina Fight Song (University of South Carolina)
• Fight! USC (University of South Carolina)
• The Fighting Gamecock Song (University of South Carolina)
• The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way (University of South Carolina)
• The NC-4 (University of South Carolina)
• Clear the Way for USC (University of Southern California)
• Marching Song of USC (University of Southern California)
• USC Beloved Varsity (University of Southern California)
• Fight For Dear Old ?T? ?U? (University of Toledo)
• Vermont Victorious (University of Vermont)
• Behold the Team (University of Virginia)
• Glory to Virginia (University of Virginia)
• Hail the Orange and Blue (University of Virginia)
• Virginia's Cavalier Song (University of Virginia)
• Bow Down to Washington (University of Washington)
• Yoh Washington (University of Washington)
• Wisconsin Spirit (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Cow Boy Joe (University of Wyoming)
• Cheer for the Gold and Black (Vanderbilt University)

• Fight! Fight! Blue and White (Washington and Lee University)
• The Fight Song (Washington State University)
• Hail, West Virginia (West Virginia University)
• Bingo, Eli Yale (Yale University)
• Bull-Dog (Yale University)
• Down the Field (Yale University)
• Glory for Yale (Yale University)
• Whoop It Up (Yale University)

Professional sports

• Washington Redskins: Hail to the Redskins