Trivia question: Who wrote \u201cFight on for Bates,\u201d the song sung by Bates sports teams after a win?<\/p>\n
Answer: Harold Hunter ’55.<\/p>\n
Second question: Who just found out that the teams sing \u201cFight on for Bates\u201d?<\/p>\n
Same answer: Harold Hunter.<\/p>\n
A member of Bates\u2019 state championship quartet in his day, Hunter penned the song, gave it to his music professor, D. Robert Smith, and forgot about it. The Alumni Association published it in Songs of Bates<\/em> in 1960, and the Bates teams adopted it as their victory song at some point in the 1960s or 1970s. Over the summer, Hunter was surprised to learn that his song is the exclamation point for each Bates football victory.<\/p>\n \u201cI wrote the fight song on a whim,\u201d says Hunter, who lives in Amissville, VA. \u201cI liked \u2018The Bobcat,\u2019 except for the \u2018fighting-smiting\u2019 rhyme, so I wrote my own\u201d. Hunter also heard it performed for the first time recently via the Bates Web site. Various Bates songs, including two versions of \u201cFight on for Bates,\u201d can be heard at www.bates.edu\/sounds.xml<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trivia question: Who wrote \u201cFight on for Bates,\u201d the song sung by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":8087,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2150\/revisions\/10753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}