Sometime around 1990 or so the blue hairs were getting very, very upset that a segment of the student body was yelling "Give em hell, give em hell, Make them eat sh!t" instead of "Give em hell, give em hell, go Horns go!" In the fight song. The admin got so upset they threatened to not allow the fight song to be played at games. Instead the Wabash Cannonball would be the new fight song.
The sensible heads among the alumni prevailed, and the admin came to realize that only a segment of students were doing it and it just wasn't worth changing our traditional fight song over.
Understand that a segment of the blue hairs back then were still not over the long-past switch from "Hail, hail the gang's all here!" to "Give em hell, give em hell, go Horns go!" They didn't like people shouting "hell."
I was never in the "make them eat sh!t" crowd, but IMHO that's no reason to change our fight song from Texas Fight to the Wabash Cannonball. The Wabash Cannonball is a good song, but as a fight song it's lame compared to Texas Fight.
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Last edited: Apr 29, 2019