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Poll: Do you know all the words to the UConn fight song?

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Born from another thread. No middle ground. If you kind of know most of the words? That’s a no.
 
I'm sure I've heard the song and would recognize it, but off the top of my head, I don't even know what the song sounds like. Feel free to dislike this post to oblivion.
 
husky429 said:
I'm sure I've heard the song and would recognize it, but off the top of my head, I don't even know what the song sounds like. Feel free to dislike this post to oblivion.
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Oh you know the tune. I had a bottle opener that played it, until I wore it out and the battery died.

I may not know the words, but three years of Latin in high school taught me that “alumni” is plural.
 
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We sang it about 2 dozen times during orientation, and more during Husky WoW (Week of Welcome), Freshman year, in the mid-90s. Plus one of my good friends dated a FB/MBB cheerleader our Senior year, who would constantly sing the song, complete with the arm motions.

It's ingrained.

on the other hand, I wouldn't know the tune of the Alma Mater/School song, let alone the words, if I had to pick it out of a lineup.
 
Graduated 11 years ago and still know every word. Honestly kind of shocked how many alums in the poll don't know.

To be fair, I think most other major athletic universities do a much better job than UConn of integrating it throughout the college experience.
 
husky429 said:
I'm sure I've heard the song and would recognize it, but off the top of my head, I don't even know what the song sounds like. Feel free to dislike this post to oblivion.
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8893 said:
Oh you know the tune. I had a bottle opener that played it, until I wore it out and the battery died.
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This is the one: if only they made it with the lyrics, I would know them!

 
whosurdaddy2720 said:
Graduated 11 years ago and still know every word. Honestly kind of shocked how many alums in the poll don't know.

To be fair, I think most other major athletic universities do a much better job than UConn of integrating it throughout the college experience.
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I went for my Masters... and now a post-masters thing. I haven't stepped on campus for academics more than once in my life. All my stuff is in Hartford. Might have something to do with the statistic being less than you'd expect. I'd imagine undergrads know more having primarily lived on campus.
 
whosurdaddy2720 said:
Graduated 11 years ago and still know every word. Honestly kind of shocked how many alums in the poll don't know.

To be fair, I think most other major athletic universities do a much better job than UConn of integrating it throughout the college experience.
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I just never paid attention to it. All I hear in my head is UUUUUUCooooon Huskies, dooooo do do do... We're not USC where the players stand in front of the band and make a big spectacle of it.
 
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I have to say, the lyrics to fight songs and school songs in general are dumb and almost always horrible. I've never paid any attention to them.
 
I know more words of the Michigan fight song than the UConn one and I went to UConn.
 
Greedo said:
I just never paid attention to it. All I hear in my head is UUUUUUCooooon Huskies, dooooo do do do... We're not USC where the players stand in front of the band and make a big spectacle of it.
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My point exactly.

We've never made a big show of it like other schools do. I think it's mostly a football thing and obviously, that's never been our strength traditionally.
 
8893 said:
Oh you know the tune. I had a bottle opener that played it, until I wore it out and the battery died.

I may not know the words, but three years of Latin in high school taught me that “alumni” is plural.
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Mine, too. But, know that that battery is replaceable.

Also, the singular for alumni is either alumnus (masculine), or alumna (feminine).

For those who might be offended by such a binary choice, those were the only two genders recognized by the Romans.

If you have a beef, it is with them.
 
prankster said:
Mine, too. But, know that that battery is replaceable.

Also, the singular for alumni is either alumnus (masculine), or alumna (feminine).

For those who might be offended by such a binary choice, those were the only two genders recognized by the Romans.

If you have a beef, it is with them.
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“Alum” now works for either though, and all points in between.

Didn’t know the battery was replaceable.
 
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And as for the fight song words....I remember all of them, but somewhat different than the official version.

So it is a no.
 
8893 said:
“Alum” now works for either though, and all points in between.
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I think it is called the declention of a noun (but my recollection of Latin is sketchier than my recollection of the words to the fight song).

-us, -a, -um (I only just now remembered the neuter)are the singular. -i is the plural for all three.
 
prankster said:
I think it is called the declention of a noun (but my recollection of Latin is sketchier than my recollection of the words to the fight song).

-us, -a, -um (I only just now remembered the neuter)are the singular. -i is the plural for all three.
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Yes, declension.
 
prankster said:
I think it is called the declention of a noun (but my recollection of Latin is sketchier than my recollection of the words to the fight song).

-us, -a, -um (I only just now remembered the neuter)are the singular. -i is the plural for all three.
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My favorite SNAFU regarding latin and gender was when Vanessa Williams sang the anthem at a Cuse game, and Cuse announced her as an "alumnus"

Unless there is news there, she's clearly not an alumnus. Maybe an alumna, or alumnae, or alumni, but not alumnus.
 
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Never learned the words and as a student and now I've carried over my own tradition from student days of singing the melody with mostly nonsense sounds, save for the occasional "UConn", "Connecticut" or "Huskies" thrown in there.

Por ejemplo:

UConn Husky
Da-nuh-nuhhhh nuh-nuh-nuh
fight, fight Connecticut
da-nuh-nuh, de doo.......

...and so on.

If you don't know the words, or even if you do, I recommend giving it a try.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Never learned the words and as a student and now I've carried over my own tradition from student days of singing the melody with mostly nonsense sounds, save for the occasional "UConn", "Connecticut" or "Huskies" thrown in there.

Por ejemplo:

UConn Husky
Da-nuh-nuhhhh nuh-nuh-nuh
fight, fight Connecticut
da-nuh-nuh, de doo.......

...and so on.

If you don't know the words, or even if you do, I recommend giving it a try.
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Can't do it. It's not Yellow Ledbetter, where the lyrics change every time it's performed. Even if I'm not physically singing, I'm saying the words in my head.

The fight song is how I know the correct spelling of the state's name. I will literally think, "C-o-n-n-e-c-t-i-c-u-t spells Connecticut."

You people are casual. :D
 
I was at Ft. Benning for TOW missile training in the summer of 1990. We had to wait for nightfall to qualify in the dark. The drill sergeant made all of us "entertain" the rest of the group while we waited. There was another UCONN guy in the platoon, so we sang the UCONN fight song. The drill sergeant's response was to make us do pushups for bad singing. BUT, we knew all the words!
 
8893 said:
Let's see if we can improve the numbers (wouldn't hurt if they put this on the screen during the games):

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I think I had forgotten how terrible this is. Those of us who attended games at the field house couldn't really escape it. Can we replace it perhaps? Perhaps some James Brown? Unofficially I recall we embraced George Clinton.

Thinking about today's opponent, if their song isn't Country Roads, it should be. Everybody already knows it.
 
Always liked the ending tune of the UConn's fight song. Not an alumni but I probably know more words to the UConn Fight Song than my wife who did attend. lol
 
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