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University Archives & Special Collections, University Fight Song, Greystone 1939. (Patrick Hayes)

University Fight Song

Fight, fight, fight for the dear old Green and White, Saskatchewan, our University.

Fight, fight, fight for the dear old Green and White,
Saskatchewan, our University.
And it’s shout, shout, shout and let your voice ring out,
For Saskatchewan, our University.

We’ll rise to a man, be it win or lose or draw,
And cheer old Alma Mater with a rah-rah-rah!
For Deo Patrie our mother strong and free —
Saskatchewan our University — Rah!

           — Words and music by Russell Hopkins

E. Russell Hopkins was a man of many talents.

While a student at the University of Saskatchewan he wrote the University Fight Song, played basketball, ran track, directed “lit night,” graduated from Law and was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for 1932.

The Moose Jaw native returned to the U of S from Oxford in 1936 and taught at the College of Law for four years. From 1940 until 1945, he served in the RCAF as a wing commander.

After the Second World War he moved to Ottawa where he served as Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel for Parliament. He died in Ottawa in November 1976.

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