Spring 2024
The band plays on
The Cougar Marching Band revs up the crowd, motivates athletes, and plays the soundtrack of the Washington State University experience. » More ...
Fight song
Summer 2019
TalkBack for Summer 2019
Letters from Washington State University alumni about Coach John Chaplin and the WSU Fight Song » More ...
Summer 2019
Sheet music for WSU Fight Song
The WSU Fight Song, written by two students in 1919, has endured for 100 years. Play the Fight Song yourself with the original sheet music below.
Read more about the history of the Fight Song.
Printable PDF version of the 1919 Fight Song sheet music
Donate to the WSU Marching Band in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Washington State Fight Song
Spring 2019
“Fight, fight, fight…” still flying high
The fight song of Washington State University, written by two women students, turns 100 years old on February 20, 2019. It's famous tune has appeared in movies, on the space shuttle, and in numerous WSU games and events over the last century. » More ...
Spring 2019
WSU Fight Song in space and time
Since the Washington State University Fight Song was composed and adopted in 1919, it has taken flight on a space shuttle, adapted in several musical styles, sung by John Candy in a movie, and taken on great meaning for the Cougar Nation.
Listen to the first known recording of the Fight Song (from 1934), the Fight Song broadcast to the Space Shuttle Challenger to honor astronaut and WSU alum John Fabian ’62, and watch “Tom Tuttle from Tacoma” belt out “Fight, fight, fight for Washington State” in the 1985 movie Volunteers.
Read the history of the fight song in “Fight, fight, fight…” still flying … » More …