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The air is crisp and the leaves are golden. Fall is here and the football season is in full swing. What a great time of year! We once lived very close to Boardman High School. Starting in August, we could hear the drum beat from the marching band practicing before and after school all through the football season. That was fine for me because I love a good marching band. I am really big fan of school fight songs. The school fight song represents the embodiment of school spirit and loyalty, and will rouse school passions for a lifetime as the opening bars of the song are played in any kind of a surrounding. I am a Boardman High School Spartan graduating in 1968. Michigan State University also called itself the Spartans. So Boardman High adopted their fight song as its own. It is a great fight song.  (Edit 2014:  The Boardman Fight Song was actually The Minnesota Rouser...but it used the Michigan State Fight Song liberally when marching onto the field). Then I went to Ohio ...