re: University of California

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You forgot the biggest fact of them all UCLA's fight song came from Big C Berkeley's fight song and they renamed it Sons of Westwood

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Thanks for mentioning this. In the days before every football/basketball game was broadcast, the Southern Branch (aka UCLA) had much higher national exposure than Cal, so people would hear the fight song and associate it with them. So when they would hear the Cal band play the song, people assumed that Cal was the school that was stealing the song (and maybe even the colors and mascot). When UCLA visits Cal and their band plays the fight song, the Cal side reacts with "Get your own fight song!"