Why AUBURN fans are messed up now we know....Tom Parry Perhaps the Auburn fan’s biggest trouble is he doesn’t know who the heck he is. Throughout the years, the school he cheers for has had four official names: • East Alabama Male College (1856-72) • Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-99) • Alabama Polytechnic Institute (1899-1960) • Auburn University (1960-present) At an Auburn game you’ll hear “Glory, Glory to All Auburn”, a knock off of “Glory, Glory Hallelujah”…or more notably, a complete copy of the University of Georgia’s fight song. You may also hear “Hold’em Tiger,” a knock off of LSU’s famous theme. Heck, as an Auburn fan, you don’t even own your own fight song. “War Eagle” was written in the mid-1950′s (1955 to be exact) by New York composers Al Stillman and Robert Allen. The reason why you won’t hear Auburn’s fight song play with other fight songs on EA Sports games and the like? Auburn doesn’t own it. Stillman passed away years ago, and left the rights of this song (with others) to his wife. So along with the strange tradition of having a bird fly around the stadium before you root on your Auburn TIGERS, and yelling War Eagle as your TIGERS kick off, you don’t really know what song or tradition to embrace.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:53:43 +0000
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