The Cardinals Be Damned The practice of slandering rival institutions is of respectable age, if not antiquity. John Park See, writing to Hubert Canfield in 1927, noted, "Incidentally there are many scurrilous ballads in common use among college men about college men of other institutions..." No surprise, the Canfield collection dating from 1926 has a three-stanza version current at the University of California, and sung to the tune of "I'm a Rambling Wreck of Poverty," also known as "Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech."