The song was written in 1912 by Theodore Van Etten, a member of the Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band at the time.
"), and the university's alma mater, "University Hymn" (sometimes "Quæcumque Sunt Vera") are Northwestern official school songs.
[citation needed] Along with being the Fight Song of Northwestern University, "Go U Northwestern" is the fight song for many high schools, with some using it under the original name.
[3] Several other colleges and universities use the song as well, including Northern Oklahoma College Enid[4] and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1998 to 2010.
In an early 1970s Sesame Street sketch, Ernie sings the song's opening bars while wearing a football helmet, eager to open a present Bert has wrapped, that Ernie thinks is a new football for him.