Fight song of every university and college of United States are the source of spirit and fortitude for students and teams
. Theses popular songs of Northwestern University were written during the year 1912. Northwestern university band member Theodore C. Van Etten wrote this song after getting inspiration from the performance of another song. This song was played by marching band during the foot ball game between university of northwestern and university of Indiana. This song left a deep effect on Theodore C. Van Etten and he decided to write similar song for university of northwestern.
Therefore, he started working for a fight song of university of northwestern. The words and music of northwestern university fight song is the consequence of the efforts of Van Etten. The wordiness of song was the selection of the senior students of Pharmacy department and after the completion of song; he arranged it with the help of twenty members of university band. This song was first time played during the first half of the foot ball game between northwestern university and university of Illinois during the year 1912 at Evanston.
This song attain much popularity and fame and even after one century , the fight song has the same popularity and is played almost at all events of university of northwestern.