Despite the popularity of the Minnesota Rouser, the Minnesota Union offered a hundred-dollar prize for the best college music and lyrics.
Marion L. Bassett, a University of Minnesota English major, wrote "Our Minnesota" as part of an assignment for a music class.
The judging committee could not decide between Bassett's entry and Truman Rickard's "Minnesota!
(later known as "Minnesota Fight") and split the prize between the two.
Fight it thru, men, win the Big Ten, Make them sorry that they came!