As we enter a new month I think it would be OK if we took a one-day break from the legal content here. It’s prime football season and I have a question that has bugged me for some time. When did Baylor change its fight song?

Mrs. Dawg is a Baylor grad, and we have a longstanding tradition of singing the Baylor Fight Song every time we drive through Waco. Nowadays you can sing it a dozen times or more before getting through the construction. In the old days you only had time to sing it once. Our children in the backseat found this charming. At least I think they did.

Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I attended a Baylor athletic event and never heard the familiar tune. I asked Baylor Grad Haley Turner about this. I sang the song for her as I remembered it. Blank stare. “I’ve never heard that.” When did it change? “I have no idea.”

So I put it to you, Loyal Daily Dawg Readers. Here’s the version I remember:

Bear down you Bears of Old Baylor U we’re all for you—Go Bears!

We’re going to show good old Baylor spirit through and through—Yea Team!!

C’mon and fight them with all your might you Bruins Bold!

We’ll win all our vic’tries for the Green and Gold!!

“Bruins Bold” was always my favorite line. This is an excellent fight song, way better than the uncreative, redundant and repetitive “Texas Fight” that my alma mater sings. Actually, we don’t sing. We just clap. Silly.

So…when did Baylor drop this wonderful fight song?

DAWG BONE: BRUINS BOLD. YA GOTTA LOVE THAT LINE.

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