Hitting the Right Note

Do you know Dartmouth's fight songs? Want to share them with a friend? You can access fast-loading Quicktime files of each Ivy fight song here. If you'd rather just go to your favorite, here are the links to Dartmouth songs:

Glory to Dartmouth (sung)
Dartmouth's In Town Again
As the Backs Go Tearing By
Dartmouth Touchdown Song
Dartmouth Fight Song

Every year when I walk into Memorial Field and my ears are assaulted by the music coming over the tinny loudspeakers I make the same suggestion: Why don't they play a CD of fight songs? Not just Dartmouth songs. Not just Ivy League songs like Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. All kinds of fight songs. Is there anyone who follows football whose blood doesn't get pumping upon hearing Michigan's The Victors or Notre Dame Victory March? Or the Florida State War Chant? Or USC's Fight On?

The incoming Dartmouth freshmen, by the way, either know the Alma Mater or will know it pretty soon. Singing it at the end of some practices and at other times is part of coach Buddy Teevens' program. In case anyone doesn't know the words, here goes:

Dear old Dartmouth, give a rouse
For the College on the hill,
For the Lone Pine above her,
And the loyal ones who love her.
Give a rouse, give a rouse, with a will!
For the sons of old Dartmouth,
For the daughters of Dartmouth.
Though 'round the girdled Earth they roam,
Her spell on them remains.
They have the still North in their hearts,
The hill winds in their veins,
And the granite of New Hampshire
In their muscles and their brains.
And the granite of New Hampshire
In their muscles and their brains.

Dear old Dartmouth, set a watch,
Lest the old traditions fail.
Stand as sister stands by brother.
Dare a deed for the old mother.
Greet the world from the hills with a hail!
For the sons of old Dartmouth,
For the daughters of Dartmouth.
Around the world they keep for her
Their old undying faith.
They have the still North in their soul,
The hill winds in their breath,
And the granite of New Hampshire
Is made part of them 'til death.
And the granite of New Hampshire
Is made part of them 'til death.

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