Your browser does not support this embedded audio. Peo’s arrangement is performed by the Marching Sycamores and Sycamore Basketball Band. Replaced by “March On! (You Fighting Sycamores)” in 1939, “Cheer for the Blue and White” was revived in 2005 by Kappa Kappa Psi charter member and State bandsman Dan Peo, who discovered the song in the University Archives. Its first public performance was given by the school band May 13, 1931, in a special chapel session. The contest generated several submissions, but “Cheer for the Blue and White,” written by Terre Haute native Malcolm Scott, was selected as the winner of the song contest and became Indiana State’s first fight song. Who doesn’t thrill when he hears these songs particularly if they are played by the college band at a football game?” Student Council President Chester Martin explained, “We need a real peppy college song that compares to the Notre Dame Victory March or the Loyalty Song of Illinois.
To correct this, the 1931 Student Council formed a Song Book Committee and established a contest to find a suitable school song for what was then the Indiana State Teachers College. Cheer for the Blue and Whiteīefore 1931, Indiana State did not have a fight song. ISU, our Alma Mater, here’s our pledge to you. Meyer, former director of the University Singers and Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. The arrangement used by the modern State band was created in 1992 by Glen Daum, director of the Indiana State University Stage Band in the 1960s, while the vocal arrangement was done by Ramon E. Curry, Professor of English, to the tune “Annie Lisle.” The Alma Mater was first published in the June 1912 Normal Advance and has only been slightly changed over the years to reflect the change from Indiana State Normal School to Indiana State University.
The first school song was the “Alma Mater,” with words written by Charles M.
Resources consulted include the Normal Advance and Sycamore yearbooks, the Indiana Statesman, the Indiana State University band library, and the University Archives.Ī songbook containing the Alma Mater, March On!, and Cheer for the Blue and White, can be downloaded here. The information shared here is based on Band History projects completed by members of the Xi Class.
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