Men's golf The men's golf team has won four NCAA Championships in 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952. School spirit The school's colors are Green and White. The music for the alma mater, "Glory to the Green and White", (originally titled "Our College") was composed by Julia Smith in 1919 and adopted by the school in 1922. The lyrics were written by Charles Langford, then a third-year letterman on the football team. The school's fight song, Fight, North Texas, composed by Francis Stroup, was adopted in 1939. The school mascot is an eagle named Scrappy. The 400-member Green Brigade Marching Band performs at every home game, both pregame and halftime, for the crowd. Facilities Many of the school's athletic facilities are located at the Mean Green Village, which opened for the 2006–07 athletic season. The athletic village area includes: Apogee Stadium (Football) UNT Coliseum (Men's, women's basketball Mean Green Soccer and Track & Field Stadium (Women's Soccer, Track & Field) Waranch Tennis Complex (Women's Tennis) Lovelace Stadium (Softball) North Texas Volleyball Center (Volleyball) Alumni Golf The era of collegiate prominence in Texas golf began with North Texas winning four consecutive NCAA Division I Championships from 1949 to 1952. Intercollegiate golf had until then been dominated by the Ivy League, which—since 1897 when intercollegiate golf began—had won 36 national titles. North Texas students Don January, who later won the PGA Championship, the 1951 U.S. Amateur champion Billy Maxwell, and Joe Conrad who was the winner of the 1955 British Amateur Championship, the 1953 Trans-Mississippi Amateur winner, was the 1953 and 1954 Southern Amateur winner, was the 1951 Texas Amateur winner, was the 1950 Mexican Amateur winner, was a member of the 1955 Walker Cup U.S. team, was a member of the victorious Americas Cup (golf) team in 1954 and 1956, and is a member of the Texas Golf Hall Of Fame, were all members of the North Texas golf team when they won the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships. Fred Cobb (1899–1954), the coach, launched the team in 1945. years since winning its fourth consecutive Championship, only one other team in the nation—the Houston Cougars—has surpassed four consecutive titles. In the -year history of intercollegiate golf, North Texas is one of only nine with more than one national title. Football On September 1, 1956, Abner Haynes and his high school classmate Leon A. King (born 1938), became the first African American