{"id":323,"date":"2011-12-01T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T16:20:36","slug":"yea-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2011\/12\/01\/yea-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Yea, Alabama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now is an exciting time for the University of Alabama&#8217;s football team. And most Bama fans would agree that football games just wouldn&#8217;t be the same without hearing Alabama&#8217;s fight song, &#8220;Yea, Alabama!&#8221; This song was penned in 1926 in response to a competition held by the university&#8217;s student magazine, the <em>Rammer Jammer<\/em>, to replace the current fight song being used, &#8220;Swing,&#8221; which was owned by Washington and Lee University<em>. <\/em>The winner of the competition was an engineering student and the editor of the student newspaper, the <em>Crimson White<\/em>, Ethelred Lundy (Epp) Sykes. Sykes won a $50 prize for composing the tune.<\/p>\n<p>We have a number of copies of <em><a title=\"Rammer Jammer\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/18227\" target=\"_blank\">Rammer Jammer<\/a> <\/em>available online, including the issue that features the new fight song, from <a title=\"Rammer Jammer May 1926\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/43528\" target=\"_blank\">May 1926<\/a>. 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