is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of "God Save the Tsar!
", the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov.
Dilley was an assistant director with the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
The piece was first performed by his group at its annual concert at the Academy of Music in 1895.
[1] For many years, the song was performed at Franklin Field, when the football team suffered a loss.