Title: Alma Mater Song/ Dance

General Information about Item:

• Genre and Sub Genre
  • Verbal Folklore: song
  • Customary Folklore: custom

• Language: English

• United States of America

Informant Data:

• Kyran McKinney-Crudden
  • Age: 20
  • Junior
  • Hometown: Glastonbury, Connecticut
  • Defensive Back #3

Contextual Data:

• Social Context
  • This includes all the players of the team and all the fans, family, and supporters that spectated the game. This is a bonding ritual between the two different sides that were separated during the game, but no longer after the game is over.
• Cultural Context
  • Includes holding each other arm and arm and respecting the opportunity to be apart of something greater than Dartmouth Football.
  • Has been a tradition with the team even before Coach Texans was a player for Dartmouth Football in the 1970s.
  • This is the most well-known tradition that Dartmouth Football has.

Item:

Song and Custom: Alma Mater Song / Dance

• Once the alma mater begins the fans will join each other arm and arm while the football players do the same thing. The fans and players then sing together moving side to side

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Transcript of Associated File:

Collector’s Name:

Hailey Noronha

Tags/Keywords:

Song, Dance, Verbal Folklore, Customary Folklore, Football, Dartmouth