SYMBOLS
One significant symbol of the University Sports Club is the ‘Varsity song’.

“The song is sung as a victory chant bringing members together to celebrate a winning success, also expressing the legacy and history of the Club.”

The song goes as follows:

“The varsity boys are coming, the varsity boys are here
With three or four French letters and a flagon of good beer
We’ve got a reputation for seducing little boys, for raping old aged pensioners and stealing children’s toys
We’re the perverts of the nation, we’re the bums you’ll never see
We’ll win this game for varsity
Varsity Varsity, Varsity –oi oi oi”

The song is used to convey certain characteristics which the participants within the University Sports Club have come to value and wish to express publically through this powerful symbol. This is reinforced by the following comment:P9.

“It’s a victory song, we sing it if we win or at Club events when drunk... It’s pretty much just a celebration, a stomping of authority when we win, letting the other team know in the changing sheds that we are varsity, we are proud to be winners and proud to be varsity members”

Songs and ritualised singing are fundamental to the process of individual/group/team identification, as Bauman (1992) suggests they differentiate between insider and outsider.

From pg 45-45 of the master's thesis titled "The ‘Varsity Player’: The Interplay of Culture, Control and Resistance around the Consumption of Alcohol at a New Zealand University Sports Club By Todd Christopher Bryant. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aa85/0fdb07525151b9d3183e812966493b3b1f17.pdf on 30 June 2020.

The last part "Varsity, Varsity, Varsity -- oi, oi, oi" chant can be traced to Germany from the early 1800s.