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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 367203, member: 289"]
In the days of old, when knights were bold 
Every city had its warrior man.
In the days of new, when fights are few 
You will view them from a big grandstand.
In our college town one has great renown 
If the game of football he should play.
With his pig-skin ball he is cheered by all, 
He's the Saltine Warrior of today.
The Saltine Warrior is a bold, bad man, 
And his weapon is a pigskin ball,
When on the field he takes a good, firm stand, 
He's the hero of large and small.
He will rush toward the goal with might and main 
His opponents all fight, but they fight in vain,
Because the Saltine Warrior is a bold, bad man, 
And victorious over all.
 
 
We are early in a new era in SU football- the Doug Marrone era. 60 years ago, another era began- the Ben Schwartzwalder Era, during which SU rose from its greatest depths to its greatest heights, and then all the way back down again. It was the era into which I was born, the one I remember from my youth. I can still recall listening to the games on the radio and waiting until Tuesday to see the grainy black and white films of the previous Saturday’s games on the local news. The music played over these highlights was not “Down, Down the Field”. It was “The Saltine Warrior”. My Dad thought he knew the beginning of it and would sing “The Saltine Warrior was a bold, brave man”. I later found that the line was “bold, bad, man”. But that’s not the way I learned it and it’s not the way I like it. My heroes were not “bad” men. They were “brave” men. They were the “Bold, Brave Men of Archbold”.
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