Tag: Notre Dame Victory March

Watch: Notre Dame players try to sing ‘Victory March’

How does your singing compare to theirs?

A recent feature on the Notre Dame athletics YouTube Channel is the Karaoke Cam, in which football players trying to sing popular songs. So far, they’ve given their best shots at “Living on a Prayer” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”. Now, with the start of the season less than a week away, it’s time for them to belt out the “Notre Dame Victory March”. As you might expect, a recording contract doesn’t appear to be in anyone’s future here, but you have to give them credit for their attempts and enthusiasm:

And no, that wasn’t a mistake at the end. For those who missed it, that’s the real final line for Notre Dame’s fight song now. The university has been co-ed for some time now, and it was beyond time for the fight song to reflect that. If that somehow offends you, there are plenty of old recordings out there that you can listen to.

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Watch: Notre Dame releases video with new fight song lyrics

Here’s how the fight song sounds now.

A few years ago, a lyric in “O Canada” was changed from “In all thy sons command” to “In all of us command” so it could be more inclusive. If our neighbors north of the border could change words to its national anthem, why couldn’t any other old song follow suit? It finally happened in South Bend as the last line in the “Notre Dame Victory March” has been changed from “While her loyal sons are marching onward to victory” to “While her loyal sons and daughters march on to victory”.

In case you’re wondering how the lyrics sound while sung, here’s the video put out by the university:

Yes, it will take some getting used to, but the change was long overdue. Notre Dame has been a co-ed university for half a century now, and it was time for the fight song to reflect that. And like our editor Nick Shepkowski said, if this bothers you more than how long it’s been since the Irish’s last national championship, there are no words.

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Notre Dame hockey Twitter account has fun with Andrew Peeke tweet

Think he’s listening to something familiar?

Former Notre Dame captain Andrew Peeke is enjoying his first full NHL season with the Columbus Blue Jackets. As he walked into Nationwide Arena on Sunday ahead of his team’s game against the Ottawa Senators, a photo was snapped of him. The photo shows him listening to music, so the Blue Jackets’ Twitter account asked everyone to guess what might be blasting in his ears at that moment. While we might never know the answer to that question, Notre Dame’s hockey account took the only guess it could:

Peeke listening to the Notre Dame Victory March ahead of games wouldn’t be unheard of. After all, professional athletes keeping themselves connected to their college days has been documented throughout history. Perhaps most famously, Michael Jordan wore his shorts from North Carolina underneath his uniform throughout his NBA career. Whatever he’s listening to, let’s hope it helps him play well.

Peeke has scored nine points and accumulated a team-high 26 penalty minutes in 38 games this season.

Oklahoma State’s band plays tribute to Notre Dame’s at the Zoo

This was great

It was announced earlier this week that the Irish band would not make the trip south to Arizona to perform in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. It is an unfortunate situation, but given the circumstances, the decision was made with the student’s best interest in mind.

The Oklahoma State band on the other hand, did make the trip and performed last night at the Phoenix Zoo during their annual Zoo Lights exhibit. Although the Irish were not physically there, the Cowboy band made sure they were present as they quickly learned Victory March and played it in front the Zoo Lights crowd.

Watch: Band of the Fighting Irish plays Victory March everywhere

The Band of the Fighting Irish will play the Notre Dame Victory March anywhere.

Wednesday was a great day for Notre Dame football fans as it was announced that Notre Dame Stadium will be open at full capacity in 2021. As the day wound down, the football program’s Twitter account tweeted out a sound that sorely has been missed:

Yes, there’s nothing like the Band of the Fighting Irish playing the Notre Dame Fighting March with over 77,000 fans making noise in the background. Simply hearing this sound makes us wonder why September can’t get here sooner. However, you never have had to go to Notre Dame Stadium on game day to hear the most famous fight song in college sports. Often, the band has taken its act on the road if the football team is traveling to a prominent location, or it will play for a select group of people on campus. Here are a few examples of the band playing outside its most famous surroundings in recent years:

Watch: Notre Dame Victory March Played on Old Player Piano

The famed Notre Dame Victory March goes back to 1908, when it was composed by brothers and university graduates John and Michael Shea.

The famed Notre Dame Victory March goes back to 1908, when it was composed by brothers and university graduates John and Michael Shea. That era corresponds with the rise of the player piano. This method of listening to music eventually was replaced by phonograph recordings and then, radio. Before that happened, one piano roll after another was produced for player pianos, and it appears one of them allowed the piano to play the song that has become synonymous with the Fighting Irish:

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Just listening to this makes you think of all of the locations this could have been performed in during that era, even on regular pianos. Imagine all of the saloons that heard this before Prohibition shut them down. Maybe on one stuffy afternoon, the piano player inside a nickelodeon decided to liven things up by having the audience listen to this tune. Whatever the case, the fact that it still plays on today shows the Shea brothers knew what they were doing in the early part of the last century.

Watch: 4-Year-Old Girl Sings Notre Dame Victory March

They say if you’re going to get your kids into sports, you gotta start ’em early.

They say if you’re going to get your kids into sports, you gotta start ’em early. Since many alums of their respective colleges and universities identify with them so strongly, it only makes sense to let their children early on that this is where they come from, and this is who they will be. Even if someone didn’t go to a certain school but they still love them to death, the same parenting practice might apply.

One Twitter user doesn’t explicitly say in her bio that she went to Notre Dame, but it says, “God. Country. Notre Dame”. Her cover photo is part of a wedding photo with her holding a sign that reads, “Married Like a Champion Today.” Whether she’s a Notre Dame alumnus or not, she clearly bleeds blue and gold, and she and her husband are training her 4-year-old daughter to do the same. Specifically, they’ve used the quarantine to teach her the Notre Dame Victory March, and here’s how their effort paid off:

As you can see, her mom tagged some prominent names associated with the football program. Luckily, Tommy Rees noticed and got the video even more attention:

Seeing your young children constantly sing a song they love is one thing. Seeing them sing a song you taught them is another. When they’re able to sing a song representing something you would run through a wall for, your pride goes to another stratosphere.

Excellent work, Mom and Dad! You’ve taught your little girl well. Hope to see her at a game soon.