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  • 'Fight, Illini!' The song that helped build Memorial Stadium

    Oct 18, 2024 10:15 am by Abigail BobrowLegacy
    various yearbook images of Rose Oltusky, the student who wrote the music of 'Fight Illini'

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    • various yearbook images of Rose Oltusky, the student who wrote the music of 'Fight Illini'

    In 1921, a Daily Illini songwriting contest helped raise funds to build Memorial Stadium. For the first time in one hundred years, the sounds of the winning song will fill the stadium again.