Liverpool fans used it as a football chant to honour their player Ian St John in the 1960s, a song that was also adopted by other clubs.
In various varieties of professional football, the teams using it include (in alphabetical order): In ice hockey: It is the college basketball fight song of, among others: In college basketball, it is chanted by the University of Oregon student section (the Oregon Pit Crew), replacing "Saints" with "Ducks".
The version of the song was recorded by the Fable Singers by permission under license and only mentions the St. Kilda Football Club.
However, in the 1950s, a local radio station (WPRO-AM) began using it as the theme music to their coverage of Providence College basketball games.
The fans took to it so well that it has become the fight song of the college, with Friar Away slipping into obscurity, save for a brief revival in the late 1990s.