Your School's Goofy Cheer

[Lil' Hannah]

So while I was watching football this weekend, I realized that a lot of schools have cheers that are kinda goofy, and I want to know the whole cheer/the story behind them, etc. For example, Auburn's War Eagle and KU's Rock Chalk. I went to a very traditionless school and I want to live vicariously through you all.

Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
So while I was watching football this weekend, I realized that a lot of schools have cheers that are kinda goofy, and I want to know the whole cheer/the story behind them, etc. For example, Auburn's War Eagle and KU's Rock Chalk. I went to a very traditionless school and I want to live vicariously through you all.

Hannah,

i had the same question about Rock Chalk during March Madness. alphagam-alum posted this for me....

The Rock Chalk Chant is perhaps the most distinctive cheer in all of college sports. Some have likened it to a Gregorian chant, but anyone who has been in Allen Fieldhouse and heard the chant start low, then build and roll over the crowd knows that it is much, much more.

The "Rock Chalk" chant dates to 1866, when it was adopted by the University Science Club. A chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey and some of his associates were returning to Lawrence from Wichita on a train. As the story goes, they passed the time by trying to create a rousing cheer. The sound of the train's wheels on the rails suggested a rhythm and a cadence to them. At first, the cheer was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times.

Even though KU didn't have a football team until four years later, KU students quickly took up the chant. Later, an English professor suggested "Rock Chalk," in place of "Rah, Rah" because it rhymed with Jayhawk and because it was symbolic of the limestone, also known as chalk rock, surrounding Mount Oread, the site of the Lawrence Campus. It became the official cheer of the University in 1897.

Teddy Roosevelt pronounced the Rock Chalk Chant the greatest college chant he'd ever heard. It was used by Kansas troops fighting in the Philippines in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU's Rock Chalk and rendered it for His Majesty.

The words to the chant are simple. "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU" repeated five times. The chant is special not because of the words, but because of the tone in which it is chanted and the distinctive cadence in which each verse is delivered. The only way to really appreciate the chant is to sit in Allen Fieldhouse before a Missouri game.

Kitso
KS 361 YELLS A&M has, none of which are goofy

[MereMere21]

War Eagle isn't any goofier than Roll Tide

[Lil' Hannah]

I was just using those 2 as an example. I want many many goofy cheers. Maybe some that are only borderline goofy. Bring 'em on.

[MereMere21]

yeah but I never pass an opportunity to poke at Bama

everyone always boo hoos Auburn - 'whats war have to do with eagle' 'why is the mascot a tiger if the fight song has an eagle'
blah blah blah


I like goofy cheers, it makes the games fun

[Nikki_DZ]

Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Zoomba
Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Ey
Roll along BG warriors
Roll along and fight for
B-G-S-U

I love my alma mater, but it's the dumbest fight song ever.

[MereMere21]

A badiga badiga badiga
ra ra ra
sis boom ba
weagle weagle War Damn Eagle
kick them in the butt big blue
Hey!


not any worse than that

[breathesgelatin]

Ok, this isn't mine, but a college in our conference is a Quaker college (Guilford College) and their chant is:

Fight, Fight Inner light!!

Doesn't get much scarier than that!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by MereMere21
yeah but I never pass an opportunity to poke at Bama

You rock

[littlebritches]

I just graduated from the University of Kentucky and sad to say, their most innovative cheer was "Go Big Blue" and on the news they call UK fans "True Blue Fans"

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by MereMere21
A badiga badiga badiga
ra ra ra
sis boom ba
weagle weagle War Damn Eagle
kick them in the butt big blue
Hey!


not any worse than that

Actually...that would be...

Bodega, Bodega, Bodega ra!
Ra ra ra
sis boom ba!
Weagle weagle WAR DAMN EAGLE
Kick em in the butt big blue
HEY!!

But yeah, a little silly!

[MereMere21]

I've never had to write it out before.....it sounds better out load than written anyway


that fight song has become a lullaby here at my house for my little boy tee hee

[CarolinaCutie]

Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Ok, this isn't mine, but a college in our conference is a Quaker college (Guilford College) and their chant is:

Fight, Fight Inner light!!

Doesn't get much scarier than that!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

LOL! I've always found that incredibly hilarious!

[MiAngel711]

If you don't know already, My school (University of Wisconsin) has some of the raunchest and innapropriate cheers of the Big Ten! National TV will not broadcast shots of our student section, because we are so out of controll most of the time. Here are a few of the standards:

**Rated PG-13**

- The student section is sections L through P. The O section has its own cheer. They lift their arms to make an "O" and scream O at random points during the game. The other sections make the same arm gesture, but also thrust their hips and scream "Oh, Oh, Oh" mimicing you know what.
- The O section usually relates by yelling "N sucks P" and pointing to the sections as they yell.
-For no reason at all, besides for the fun of it, one section will tell a nearby section to "Eat Sh*t" and then the next section will turn back and reply "F*ck you". Its insane to see a good 300 turn and say this.
- Our Cheerleaders have signs that say "We" and "Want" and "More". After they hold up all 3, the students scream "BEER".
- The band also plays certain music that we have to dance to. Which includes clapping while moving leaning forward and back and accerating to the music. Since half the stadium is drunk a good portion of people fall off their chairs.(We also stand the ENTIRE game)
- We also have our own takes on the wave and we do "rowing", where everyone in a section sits down and grabs the person in front of them shoulders and rows back and forth. Also a time where drunks fall off the bleachers.
- One of the more wholesome cheer, but strange none the less is the "If you wannabe a Badger song". If you really want the lyrics I can post them, but this post is getting long enough.

There are many more that I cant even think of. But if you ever have a chance to come to a Wisconsin Football game(Other sports have other cheers)its definately an experice of a lifetime. Despite our naughty cheers I love my school!

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally posted by MiAngel711

- The O section usually relates by yelling "N sucks P" and pointing to the sections as they yell.
-For no reason at all, besides for the fun of it, one section will tell a nearby section to "Eat Sh*t" and then the next section will turn back and reply "F*ck you". Its insane to see a good 300 turn and say this.

Does everyone always sit in the same sections? Are they assigned to you or is it just an unspoken thing?