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Go! Go! Go! Go! \\ | Go! Go! Go! Go! \\ | ||
Goooooo! Goooooo! Go! Marquette! \\ | Goooooo! Goooooo! Go! Marquette! \\ | ||
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You can listen to the [[Marquette Band:]] playing the fight song [[http:// | You can listen to the [[Marquette Band:]] playing the fight song [[http:// | ||
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===== The Origins of " | ===== The Origins of " | ||
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+ | ===== Georgetown Traditions: What's A Hoya? ===== | ||
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+ | The origins of the word " | ||
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+ | The official explanation holds that there was a baseball team at Georgetown called the " | ||
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+ | To this day, however, no one has proven exactly when and under what circumstances the yell originated. While there was a Stonewalls team between 1866 and 1873, an actual reference to the team is pure speculation. Some have held that hoia saxa referred not to the team but its surroundings--the team's field (the present site of Copley Lawn) was bounded by the College Walls along 37th street. One theory holds that words such as saxa (Latin for " | ||
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+ | The Hoya yell gained additional attention in 1920. In that year, a fledgling student newspaper known as The Hilltopper petitioned Rev. Coleman Nevils, S.J., Dean of the College, to change its name to The HOYA, a name said to be more representative of the University. Nevils, who had championed naming the Holy Cross student paper "The Hoia" without success in 1916, enthusiastically approved the change. | ||
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+ | As the college paper was often cited by sportswriters covering Georgetown sports in the 1920' | ||
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+ | Among all college programs, only Georgetown University holds this unique team nickname to which its students, faculty, alumni, and fans can take pride in. But the Hoya yell did find its way into the fight songs of two other Jesuit colleges: Holy Cross' " |