Famous Wisconsin Fight Song Was Actually Written for Minnesota
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The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers and the University of Wisconsin Badgers are meeting this weekend in college football just as they have for the last 130 years now! The sports site, Bleacher Report, notes that their rivalry is the longest in Division 1 college football, with the first game happening WAAAAY back on November 15th, 1890.
And while the biggest part of this storied rivalry is Paul Bunyan s Axe itself which is keeps a running tally of the score of each game on the handle and is displayed on the campus of the winning school for the next year another big part of college football is the famous fight songs both schools proudly play after they score a touchdown.