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‘Fight On, Pennsylvania’ celebrates a century

Two pages of sheet music for the song Fight On Pennsylvania.
One hundred years ago two Penn freshmen, David Zoob and Ben McGiveran, wrote the music and lyrics to “Fight On, Pennsylvania,” which became the University’s official fight song for athletic contests. (Image: Penn Archives, from "Songs of the University of Pennsylvania.")

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