Across the Field
"(Fight The Team) Across the Field" is the older of two fight songs of Ohio State University, with the newer one being "Buckeye Battle Cry". Although the lyrics reference football heroics and was composed by the football team's varsity manager, William A. Dougherty, Jr.,[1] the song is used by Buckeye teams of all sports. The song first appeared before the October 16, 1915, game against Illinois.[2]
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Fight the team a -- cross the field
Show them O -- hi -- o's here
Set the Earth re -- ver -- ber -- a -- ting
With a might -- y cheer
RAH! RAH! RAH!
Hit them hard and see how they fall
Ne -- ver let that team get the ball
Hail! Hail! The gang's all here
So let's win that old con -- ference now!
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Notes[]
- ^ "Songs of The Ohio State University". www.sgsosu.net. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ Walsh, Christopher (2009). Ohio State Football Football Huddleup, Triumph Books (Random House, Inc.), ISBN 978-1-60078-186-5, p. 86.
Categories:
- American college songs
- College fight songs in the United States
- Big Ten Conference fight songs
- Ohio State University
- Ohio State University Spirit and Traditions