Minnesota Fight Explained

"Minnesota Fight" is one of several school songs of the University of Minnesota. Responding to a 1925 contest to find an additional fight song for the school, university graduate Truman E. Rickard entered a piece entitled "Minnesota! Let's Go!". Rickard shared the contest's hundred-dollar prize with another entry, Marion Bassett's "Our Minnesota". Rickard's fight song can still be heard at Minnesota Golden Gopher athletic events, but is now known as "Minnesota Fight".

References

• Book: University of Minnesota Band Alumni Society . Minnesota, Hats Off To Thee . Taylor Publishing Company . 1992 . 210–211 . 0-9629747-0-6.
• Web site: Our Minnesota & Minnesota Fight . Regents of the University of Minnesota . 2005-05-05 . 2006-09-09 .

External links

• Minnesota Fight as performed by the University of Minnesota Marching Band
• Web site: Lyrics . Minnesota Fight . Regents of the University of Minnesota . 2011-06-11 . 2016-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060907174157/http://www.music.umn.edu/marchingband/media/index.html . 2006-09-07 . dead .