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The Queen's Golden Gaels are the athletic teams that represent Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Team colours are blue, red and gold.
Their rallying cry is the "Oil Thigh", a fight song sung in gaelic by spectators when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown, etc. Originally written in 1898 after a loss to their rivals at the University of Toronto, the name comes from the phrase sung repeatedly in the main chorus: "Oil thigh na Banrighinn a'Banrighinn gu brath", or "College of the Queen forever" in Gaelic. The song has the tune of John Brown's Body or the Battle Hymn of the Republic; its English verses about the rivals of Queen's College alternate with the Gaelic chorus.
Queen's University was established in 1841 by the Presbyterian church; the "Gaels" name is in reference to the school's Scottish Canadian roots.
Queen's teams have had a variety of successes on the national and international stages over the university's history. The Golden Gaels football program is one of the most successful and oldest in Canada boasting a total of three straight Grey Cup victories in the early Twentieth Century (1922, 1923, and 1924) and three Vanier Cup victories as the top team in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (1968, 1978, and 1992). The university is committed to "sport for all" as it continues to field more men's and women's teams at the Varsity level than any other university in Canada.
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Canadian Interuniversity Sport teams | Sport in Ontario | Queen's University
"Queen's Golden Gaels"