Title: Singing of the Alma Mater After Every Game

Informant Info: Rivers Cahee -19, born and raised in Lafayette, La. Current Freshmen on the Dartmouth Football team

Type of Lore: Verbal, Tradition

Language: English

Country of Origin: United States

Social/Cultural Context: After every game, win or lose, the Dartmouth football team gathers and puts their arms around each other and faces their crowd, and sings the alma mater together, usually swaying back and forth with the beat of the song.

Informant’s Comments: “We usually do this after real games, but like, after the spring game, which is basically a scrimmage with ourselves, we do sing the alma mater to the crowd.”

Collector’s Comments: We weren’t able to tell if all sports teams take the alma mater as serious as the football team, because from what we gathered, football is the only team to sing after every game.