School Spirit
The school's colors are green and white. The music for the alma mater, "Glory to the Green and White," (originally titled "Our College") was composed by Julia Smith in 1919 and adopted by the school in 1922. The lyrics are were written by Charles Langford, then a third-year letterman on the football team. The school's fight song, Fight, North Texas, composed by Francis Stroup, was adopted in 1939. The school mascot is an eagle named Scrappy.
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