"We Are the Boys from Old Florida" is a song commonly played and sung during University of Florida (UF) sporting events, most notably at the end of the third quarter at football games by The Pride of the Sunshine, the school's marching band. It is very similar to other school songs sung by several other colleges and schools around the United States, and its origin and original composer is unknown. At Florida, it has been popular since the 1920s. History "We Are the Boys From Old Florida" has been associated with the University of Florida since the 1920s. However, several other schools and universities across the United States—including the University of Chicago, the University of Nebraska, and the Toledo, Ohio public school system— sing very similar waltz-time tunes, often with very similar lyrics. In Gainesville, Florida, the song has been attributed to Robert Swanson and John Icenhour, two University of Florida students who supposedly debuted the tune in 1919 with their barbershop quartet and dance band. A collection of University of Florida pep songs from 1941, on the other hand, attributes "We Are the Boys" to Thorton W. Allen, a prolific composer and arranger of marching band music in the early 20th century. However, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has long performed a very similar school song called "Dear Old Nebraska U", which school records say was composed by Harry Pecha in 1924. And in Toledo, Ohio, another very similar song called "We're Strong for Toledo" has been taught to public school students since the early 1900s, with a 1953 obituary for a local man named Joseph Murphy stating that he wrote the tune and lyrics in 1906. As former University of Florida music director Harold Bachman wrote in a published history of the school's band, "No one seems to know for sure who composed 'We Are the Boys From Old Florida'." And although the University of Florida owns the rights to its band arrangement of the song, the tune and lyrics are in the public domain. Whatever its origins and whoever initially composed it, "We Are the Boys" has been a popular pep song with UF students and fans since the 1920s, and since the 1930s, it has been played at Florida Gators football games by The Pride of the Sunshine (the school's marching band) while students lock arms, sway, and sing the lyrics. It was once played at random