Baseball was much more prominent at the time, as attested by the other classic sports song written in 1908, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” An illustration on the cover of the march’s first published score actually pictured a bat and a ball. It was not immediately identified with football. The “Victory March” did indeed grow in stature, gradually. The Shea brothers, who both also earned master’s degrees at the University, had decided Notre Dame needed a fight song, but seemed to think that their product was mediocre-merely the beginning of a process of musical evolution, says Larry Dwyer, assistant director of bands. Shea, class of 1906, played on the organ, the instrument on which the song was born. Shea, class of 1904, and words by his brother John F. The band has also released a CD, 100 Years: The Notre Dame Victory March 1908–2008, with historic recordings of the piece that Murray Sperber, in Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football, calls “one of the nation’s four best known songs.” The others are “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “God Bless America” and “White Christmas.”Ī highlight of the CD is the original score, with music by Rev. Fans can celebrate with a new book, 100 Years of the Notre Dame Victory March, designed, written and published by the band staff and filled with photographs of memorable halftime shows and other performances. The University of Notre Dame Band invited its alumni to attend a celebration of the Victory March’s 100th anniversary on October 4, during the Stanford football weekend. This anthem of enthusiasm and loyalty, composed by Domers in 1908, continues to wake up the echoes on campus and off-and is getting some volley cheers of its own this year. The “Notre Dame Victory March” has no such trouble. Upon reaching the age of 100, the task of simply waking up might pose challenges for the average person.
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