Question: Who wrote the song that the most popular section of the fight song for the University of Oregon, "The Mighty Oregon March", was fashioned after?

Context articles: The Cougar Song
Go, You Redbirds
Fight Panthers
Victory for MSU
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Tribe Fight Song
Fight song
Colorado State University Fight Song
Cougar Fight Song (University of Houston)
Mighty Oregon

"The Cougar Song," often colloquially referred to as "The Cougar Fight Song," "The BYU Fight Song," or "Rise and Shout, The Cougars Are Out," is the school fight song of Brigham Young University.
 It is often played at BYU sporting events, especially at BYU football games, and is popular with both students and alumni.
 On these occasions it is traditional for the fans to remain seated, singing along with the verse, then literally "rise and shout" with the chorus and chant.
Go, You Redbirds is the fight song for the athletic teams of Illinois State University.
 It was written in 1932 by Kenyon S. Fletcher.
 The words have been changed from time to time.
 Prior to the fight song we know today, the Illinois State fight song was "Normal Loyalty."
 At sporting events when an ISU athletic team enters the field or floor, the students and fans sing the first stanza of “Go, You Redbirds.”
 A new growing Redbird tradition amongst several redbird teams is to sing the fight song with the marching band to the home crowd after victories.
 The line "Lets win this game" is changed to "We've won this game."
"Fight Panthers" is the fight song of the Georgia State Panthers, the athletics teams for Georgia State University (GSU).
 "Fight Panthers" is the third GSU fight song since the athletics programs were created.
 The fight song was introduced prior to the 2010 football season.
 The previous fight songs were "Panther Pride" and "Blue and Red".
"Victory for MSU" is the official fight song of Michigan State University, USA.
 MSU's fight song was created in early 1915 (and copyrighted in 1919), when MSU was known as Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.).
 An MSU cheerleader, Francis Irving Lankey, along with lyricist Arthur Sayles, created the song.
 With several changes noted below, the school has used the same song ever since.
 The MSU Fight Song is played at all university sporting events and is frequently sung by students and alumni.
 Upon the song's 100th anniversary, it was officially renamed from the "MSU Fight Song" to "Victory for MSU".
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a British music hall song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to Henry James "Harry" Williams.
 It was allegedly written for a 5-shilling bet in Stalybridge on 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall.
 Now commonly called "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", the original printed music calls it "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary."
 It became popular among soldiers in the First World War and is remembered as a song of that war.
The Tribe Fight Song is the official fight song of The College of William & Mary, located in Williamsburg, Virginia.
 Throughout the College's history there have been three official fight songs.
 The original fight song, titled "Victory", was written in 1929 by Oscar E. Wilkinson.
 Two years later, a new fight song titled "Fight, Fight, Fight for the Indians" was published in the William & Mary student handbook.
 Many years later, a third edition was written which is still used today.
 Simply "Tribe Fight Song", it is supposed to be sung after every touchdown the Tribe football team scores at home games.
In American and Canadian sports, a fight song is a song associated with a team.
 In both professional and amateur sports, fight songs are a popular way for fans to cheer for their team.
 Fight songs are laden with history; in singing a fight song, fans feel part of a large, time-honored tradition.
 Although the term "fight song" is primarily used in the United States, the use of fight songs is commonplace around the world, but they may also be referred to as team anthems, team songs or games songs in other countries, even such as Australia, Mexico and New Zealand.
 Fight songs differ from stadium anthems, used for similar purposes, in that they are usually written specifically for the purposes of the team, whereas stadium anthems are not.
The Colorado State University Fight Song, as it appears below, has been the official fight song for Colorado State University since 1957 when the school changed from Colorado A&M.
 Features of its uniqueness include the use of the word "stalwart," meaning unrelenting and full of ardor, and the third line of the song.
 It allows the fight song to be adapted for each game, from ""tear the Buffaloes' line asunder"" to ""tear the Cowboys' line asunder.""
The "Cougar Fight Song" is the official fight song of the University of Houston (UH).
 It was written by Marion Ford with lyrics by Forest Fountain who were both UH students, and is typically performed by the Spirit of Houston.
 The song was popularized by Ed Gerlach and his orchestra in the 1950s who was a music professor at the university.
 In 2002, Norm Maves, Jr. of "The Oregonian" named the song as the 7th best college fight song in America.
"Mighty Oregon" is the fight song for the University of Oregon.
 It is played by the Oregon Marching Band at home football and basketball games.
 Director of Bands, Albert Perfect, along with journalism student DeWitt Gilbert, wrote the fight song, "The Mighty Oregon March", which was first performed on March 4, 1916.
 For the song's most popular section, Perfect fashioned a new melody to fit into the harmony from "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," a hit 1912 World War I march.
 The catchy popularity of the harmony was not lost on Perfect, a man well-educated in music theory, originally subtitled the song "The Tipperary of the West."
 Over the years there have been several changes to the lyrics and, today, the middle stanza is generally the only one sung and it is done so using more modern lyrics than the original.