"Boola Boola" is a football song of which American Ivy League University?
"Boola Boola" is a football song of Yale University. It is not however the university's official fight song; that is "Bull Dog", by Cole Porter.
When Yale’s football team was getting ready to play Harvard University in 1900, a student put together a simple, fun-to-sing song to rouse the crowd at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut. The song "Boola Boola" became very popular and over a hundred years later, the song’s refrain is synonymous with old-time college football and great mystery that befits Ivy League school folk of yore.
Yale beat Harvard 28-0 on that day -- November 24, 1900 -- and fans ran on to the field after the game, singing the song "Boola Boola".
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klmilles
Be cause EVERYBODY was dying to know them, these are the lyrics to Boola Boola. (No, it is no"somewhere Over the Rainbow.")
Boola boola, boola boola, boola boola, boola, boola
Oh when we're through with those poor fellows
They will holler boola, boo
Rah, rah!
Oh Yale, Eli Yale
Oh Yale, Eli Yale
Oh Yale, Eli Yale
Oh Yale, Eli Yale
Wendy Petty
Surprised so many didn’t get this as an American centric space
Jim Mascair
I got this right from watching Gilligan's Island.