Hoya Saxa
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Hoya Saxa is the official cheer and "college yell" of Georgetown University and its athletics teams. The term hoya is an Ancient Greek word usually transliterated from οἵα as hoia from the word hoios
The phrase "Hoya Saxa" painted in large blue and gray letters at Georgetown's Canal Road entrance (now obscured)
There Goes Old Georgetown
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"There Goes Old Georgetown" is the unofficial name of the Georgetown University sports teams' fight song. It is also known as simply "Georgetown Fight Song". It is actually an amalgamation of three so
Hoya Saxa
…Saxa!", a form that is used in "The Hoya Song" from 1930 which mocked the cheers of other universities, and was then included in the school fight song, "There Goes Old Georgetown". The phrase was first used at Georgetown University sometime before 1893, when it was noted in publications about Georgetown's football games against…
Hoya cheerleaders at an NCAA basketball game