Sounds like these are being heard on Saturday afternoons at colleges and
universities acro the United States.They are the sounds of students cheering for their
college football team as a marching band plays.Soon, some of the best college football
teams will be taking part in special championship games.College bands will be playing
their fight songs.
A student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor wrote the first song ever written for
college sports.That was in 1898.The student was Louis Elbel.The song is \"The
Victors\" .The University of Michigan Marching Band still plays it today.Another old college fight song still played today is from the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.It is called\"Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech\" .Its
writer is unknown.But experts say the music has been played since the end of the
1800\'s.Perhaps the most famous and recognized American college fight song belongs to the
University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana.Two Notre Dame students wrote the
song in 1908.They were brothers, Michael and John Shea.We leave you now with that
university fight song, \"Notre Dame Victory March\".
