"Victory" is an old fight song of the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. It is most often sung by the Penn State Glee Club and performed by the Penn State Blue Band. While a Penn State student and Glee Club member in 1913, James Leyden began singing a song he had just created at the athletic Track House. His roommate, Albert A. Hansen, published the song in the fall semester of 1913. The Blue Band played an arrangement of the song as early as 1915. During a Penn State Nittany Lions football game at Beaver Field against Lehigh University, students held aloft blue and white streamers and alternated the colors with the beats of the song; the novel cheering method became popular with the spectators in the crowd. Leyden would later compose "

The Nittany Lion "The Nittany Lion" is a traditional fight song played by the Penn State Blue Band at football games and other sporting events. During the pre-game show of home football games at Beaver Stadium, it is part of the traditional Lion Fanfare and D ...

" in the 1920s.

Lyrics

The song's lyrics are:

References

*{{cite book, last=Range, first=Thomas E., author2=Sean Patrick Smith , title=The Penn State Blue Band: A Century of Pride and Precision, year=1999, publisher=Penn State Press, location=, pages=232, isbn=0-271-01960-3

External links

Mp3 of "Victory"
performed by the Penn State Glee Club American college songs College fight songs in the United States Penn State Nittany Lions fight songs 1913 songs