So, I think it’s wonderful that they have sons and daughters in the fight song now. “I think it’s great, I’ve got two daughters, and my wife played volleyball at Notre Dame. “I’m delighted and now that I think about it, I wonder why it took 50 years since women have been admitted to Notre Dame to realize that you could change the lyrics of the song and still keep the meter of that line just fine,” said Brad Gregory, a history professor at Notre Dame.ĥ0 years after women were first admitted into the university, the Notre Dame fight song is receiving a change to include the “daughters” of the Notre Dame. The fight song was first performed on Campus on December 1st, 1908, but it wasn’t until 1972 that women were allowed to attend Notre Dame. Hesburgh, C.S.C., to admit undergraduate women to the university. (WNDU) - The University of Notre Dame is officially changing the chorus of its renowned fight song to include both “sons and daughters” as it observes the 50th anniversary of the decision by then-President Rev. "Irish fight song deemed better than M's 'Victors '".Archived from the original on November 29, 2018. "New York Priest Wrote Notre Dame's Famed 'Victory March' Fight Song". Archived from the original on September 15, 2019. 'Brother,' he said, 'you've got something there'" One deacon had a remark to make when the recital was finished. They were not a little shocked to see a man wearing a Roman collar energetically thumping away on the keys of their organ. The song is also used by the USAFL's Chicago Swans and Houston Lonestars, with the later using the words "red, white, and blue" as those are that team's colors. Same for the Ottawa Swans Men's and Women's teams playing in the AFL Ontario league. On the international side, the Northern Lights ( AFL Canada- National Women's team) and the Northwind (AFL Canada - National Men's team), who are competing at the AFL International Cup held in Melbourne every 3 years or at the Parallel Cup against the USAFL, also use the song, with the club's colours of red and white. Launceston Football Club which plays in the Tasmanian State League (TSL) also uses the melody, again with the club colours of blue and white. The East Fremantle Football Club, which plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL/WAWFL), also uses the melody, with the words only slightly altered from the Swans version, including the East Fremantle club colours of blue and white. When Port entered the AFL, their senior team changed their club song to the original song Power To Win after their new nickname by Cold Chisel's Les Kaczmarek and Quentin Eyers, while their South Australian National Football League team kept their song. Port Adelaide has also used an adapted version of the Victory March since 1971, only reflecting the team's colors of black and white. Previously, the Swans' club song had been an adaptation of Springtime in the Rockies by Gene Autry. In 1961, Notre Dame and other musical houses granted the South Melbourne Football Club (currently the Sydney Swans), an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League (AFL), a copyright to adapt the Victory March into their own club song, "Cheer, Cheer the Red and the White," which begins "Cheer, cheer the red and the white / honour the name by day and by night". The chorus of the song is one of the most recognizable collegiate fight songs in the world and was ranked first among fight songs by Northern Illinois University Professor William Studwell, who remarked it was "more borrowed, more famous and, frankly, you just hear it more." Other versions For the 1976 Italian drama film, see Victory March (film).
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