theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Aug 6, 2010 2:11:28 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 6, 2010 9:54:32 GMT -5
Virginia Tech dropped Georgetown and VMI from its fight song ("Tech Triumph") in 2000. But there's a lot to be said for leaving things alone.
The odd thing is that, when "The Hoya Song" (aka third verse of the fight song) was written in 1930, Georgetown was playing none of the teams mentioned. It had never played Yale, ended the Navy series in the 1920's, had never played Cornell or Harvard, and was no longer playing Holy Cross or Princeton. (When I was at the HOYA, a couple of us shoe-horned the then-eight Big East schools into a verse that I (mostly) still remember, but didn't go with the column, as I'm not sure it would have been appropriate to reword the song.)
If the 1930 authors had used that season's opponents, the song would contain references to Loyola-Chicago, West Virginia, West Virginia Wesleyan, Western Maryland, Michigan State,
Boston College, NYU, Villanova, and Detroit.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Aug 6, 2010 10:02:41 GMT -5
I think we can get by with isolated chants/songs for our current rivals. There is a particularly strong verse regarding Pitt that emerged during the Aaron Gray and Canadian whose name I forget era of Pitt basketball, if not earlier.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 6, 2010 10:15:30 GMT -5
I think we can get by with isolated chants/songs for our current rivals. There is a particularly strong verse regarding Pitt that emerged during the Aaron Gray and Canadian whose name I forget era of Pitt basketball, if not earlier. Hmmm, that sounds like a originalist approach.  |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Aug 6, 2010 10:17:27 GMT -5
I think we can get by with isolated chants/songs for our current rivals. There is a particularly strong verse regarding Pitt that emerged during the Aaron Gray and Canadian whose name I forget era of Pitt basketball, if not earlier. Hmmm, that sounds like a originalist approach. ;D Why does everything have to be about politics? Sorry about comma in post above. |
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 7, 2010 15:18:54 GMT -5
I like the fact that Holy Cross (my dad's alma mater) and Cornell (my grad school) are in the Hoya fight song.  |
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Post by kghoya on Aug 7, 2010 23:09:09 GMT -5
I think we can get by with isolated chants/songs for our current rivals. There is a particularly strong verse regarding Pitt that emerged during the Aaron Gray and Canadian whose name I forget era of Pitt basketball, if not earlier. Kendall? |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Aug 8, 2010 12:20:16 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by strummer8526 on Aug 8, 2010 16:07:26 GMT -5
It's better as it is. How do you sing a fight song that announces your triumph over a team if that team is beating you or has a better record at the time? Considering we're never in competition with the teams in our song, we never have to worry about that. We can be losing to Pitt 85-27, but dammit, we're better than those dear old fellas up at Yale.
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