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1926 - Students dressed as "blanketed Indians" perform the teams Scalp Song.

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In 1926, this image by Frank Snyder appeared in the Alumni Newsletter. It's of the Miami University Glee Club performing the Scalp Song prior to a football game. These singers would perform dressed in blankets, and to the beat of a tom-tom. The caption read, “The Miami Men’s Chorus, dressed in feathered headgear and bright blankets, from under which linen knickers and golf-socks incongruously peeped out, sang the stirring war song of the Tribe.” 

Scalp Song Lyrics (1916)

The tribes go forth to war,
Their scalp songs ring afar;
Bright the blood-red camp-fires gleaming,
Mad with thirst the war-hawks screaming;
Signal smoke soars high,
Beckons in the sky,
Old men shake their calabashes,
Warriors dance amid the ashes,
Maidens sobbing, war-drums throbbing,
War!
Far and wide their host is scattered,
Spears are broken, shields are battered;
Miami! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh!
Miami! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh!
Race them, chase them, pound them, hound them
Wow!
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