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| | A Piece of UConn History/UConn Husky Fight Song - April 5, 1999 |
 | | Herbert France, who founded UConn's music department in the 1930s, was the composer of the popular fight song "UConn Husky." France is shown conducting the annual carol sing from the front steps of the Wilbur Cross Bulding. |
 | | What is now known as "The Husky Fight Song," actually titled "UConn Husky," was written sometime in the late 1940s by Herbert France, who started the music department. |
 | | "Thrilled to the words, 'Fight, fight, fight, Connecticut, fight', hundreds of loyal Connecticut rooters glowed with satisfaction last Friday night as Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians introduced their Connecticut fight song, 'The Connecticut Husky,'" reported the Campus on November 28, 1939. |
| www.advance.uconn.edu /1999/990405/040599hs.htm (902 words) |
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