Villanova on zacharyc

Villanova Fight Song

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:29:34 -0500

The other day I stumbled across this awesome project by FiveThirtyEight: Our Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense Of College Fight Songs | FiveThirtyEight while googling for fight songs. I was a cheerleader in college and still have my fight song memorized. I went the Villanova, and our Fight Song was called “V for Villanova”. The words were as follows:

“V” for Villanova, “V” for Victory
“B” for Blue and “W” for White

For the Blue and the White we will fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight for Villanova, Fight for Victory

For we’re out to win the fray;
Villanova leads the way,
With a capital “V” for Victory.

Vill-a-no-va, V-I-L-L-A-N-O-V-A
“V” for Vic-tor-y, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
It’s a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye,
and a “V” for a V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

“V” for Villanova, “V” for Victory
“B” for Blue and “W” for White

For the Blue and the White we will fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight for Villanova, Fight for Victory

For we’re out to beat the foe
Show the en-e-my we know
how to win with a “V” for Victory.

This isn’t included in the 538 study because it wasn’t part of the schools they selected. Regardless, I’ve decided to post the values for the CSV that they are using:

Column	Value
school	Villanova University
conference	Colonial Athletic Association
song_name	V For Villanova
writers	Les Irving
year	Unknown
student_writer	Unknown
official_song	Yes
contest	No
bpm	145
sec_duration	73
fight	Yes
number_fights	12
victory	Yes
win_won	Yes
victory_win_won	Yes
rah	No
nonsense	No
colors	Yes
men	No
opponents	No
spelling	Yes
trope_count	5
spotify_id	3Xe4aLJbQcEAmbyeM5DJbC

A couple of additional notes:

BPM is a guess by someone who knows better than me.
Information obtained for this was sourced from several places and may not be completely accurate. Information is provided to the best of my abilities.

Photo of the Day: Villanova Cheer

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:39:25 -0400

This picture was taken over a year ago at UCA College camp in Scranton, Pa (yes the home of the Office). Here they are competing their cheer. This was the last east coast college I have attended, and quite possibly the last camp I will attend, so this picture is special for me.

In terms of composition, all the kids are facing the crowd, and the hands are all up in the air. The background isn’t really, but this was the best I could do. This brings up the difference between shooting composed shots and event photography. Sometimes you have no choice about your angle and you have to take what you can get, that is what happened here.

Villanova Basketball 2008 Season

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:15:50 -0500

Hello all you Villanova fans out there. If you are like me, and the further you get from graduation the less you remember about your old college basketball team, then this link is for you. (Note: The original iCal subscription link is no longer available.) Okay wait, what is this? It is a link to an iCal formatted subscription. iCal is also the name of Apple’s calendar app that ships with Mac OS X.