Harvard undergrad and later Harvard & MIT mathematics professor Tom Lehrer penned this tune in 1945.
He admonishes the athletic team to fight fiercely. He was a first class satirist as is demonstrated by this tune. The Harvard band now plays the song at halftimes and in concerts, as though it were the traditional Harvard song.
One of Tom Lehrer’s live performed songs, “Fight Fiercely, Harvard”, is part of Tom’s second published live performance album, “Tom Lehrer Revisited” and included in “The Remains of Tom Lehrer”, which was released in 2000 and “The Tom Lehrer Collection” CD+DVD, original recording remastered released in 2010.
The most famous football game in Ivy League history – the 1968 Harvard-Yale game – is brought to life in this exhilarating documentary.
Harvard mounts a stunning comeback, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie the game and tie Yale for the season championship. Although the final score was tied, the miraculous comeback prompted the Harvard Crimson to proclaim in its headline, “Harvard beats Yale, 29-29”.
His uniquely depraved wit has been forced again on an unsuspecting public’ via Tom Foolery, the stage revue based on his trenchant observation of the American scene.
This new songbook, with old favorites unavailable for years as well as never-published songs, is the most comprehensive ever assembled. It contains the words, tunes, piano accompaniments, and guitar chords for these thirty-four classics: