century, during the Spanish–American War and around the start of the 20th century, during the Boxer Rebellion. The tune became popular in the military after it was used as a theme by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Music Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album Join Bing and Sing Along (1959). Sports The song is now frequently sung by fans of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club of Major League Soccer during matches, with lyrics reflecting the legend of Catherine O'Leary's cow's alleged role in the team's namesake, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The Great Fire coincidentally burned much of the Old Town, Chicago neighborhood, where the Chicago Fire Soccer Club held their first team practice in 1998 at the Moody Bible Institute. The Western Michigan University marching band plays & sings the song as part of their pregame show. The Eastern Illinois University marching band plays the song in conjunction with their fight song at athletic events. The chorus is used at the University of Kansas immediately after every touchdown in football and following each basketball game, during "The Waving of the Wheat". The song has been tradition at the University of Wisconsin since the late 1890s, when a Wisconsin-flavored arrangement was made. The University of Wisconsin Marching Band plays this arrangement regularly at sporting events, including the beginning of each period in hockey and basketball, and following touchdowns at football games. Prior to the adoption of "The Victors" as the University of Michigan's official fight song, it was considered to be Michigan's school song. Texas A&M University's "Aggie War Hymn" currently uses the chorus of this song as its finale, but it is sung with different lyrics. The song is the beginning of the UCLA victory song, "Rover", played by the UCLA Marching Band. Television In 1964, the song was played for laughs at a "very" slow tempo by the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band on the American sitcoms Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. The song is sung by Fozzie Bear and an ensemble (featuring some of the cast of Sesame Street) during the finale of a fifth season episode of The Muppet Show guest-starring Marty Feldman. Richard Nixon's 1968 U.S. Presidential campaign used part of the song (set to images of celebratory clips from the 1968 Democratic National Convention) mixed with more dissonant sounds accompanying pictures of poverty-stricken areas, soldiers wounded in Vietnam, and