So, what is your favourite team cheer?
At Queen’s University at Kingston, one of my favourites is a “call and response” cheer:
**Q. What’s the Sport of Kings?
A. Queen’s, Queen’s, Queen’s!**
And your faves?
There is/was an MIT cheer (a similar one is used at RPI and probably other techie places)
e to the u du dx
e to the x dx
cosine secant tangent sine
3 point 1 4 1 5 9
Integral radical mu dv
Slipstick sliderule, M I T.
It may have been modernized to remove the sliderule references since I graduated.
As you said, RPI has a similar but slightly different cheer. To be honest, though I don’t remember it ever actually being used at a game, although I only ever went to hockey games, never football games.
e to the x, dy/dx, e to the x dx
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
three point one four one five nine
square root, cube root, log of pi,
dis-integrate 'em RPI.
My mom went to Northwestern during the dark ages, when their academic school players had to play troglodytes from Ohio State and Michigan. The games would usually be over by halftime, and they had this cheer:
“That’s all right, that’s okay
You’ll be working for us someday”
I read this one in high school. I don’t remember where.
Strawberry shortcake, banana split,
We think your team looks like
Shift to the left, shift to the right,
Stand up, sit down, fight! fight! fight!
In college, we had
“Rah Rah Ree.
Kick 'em in the knee!
Rah Rah Rass
Kick 'em in the other knee!”
My two favorites are, as far as I know, jokes that were never actually used in games.
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My friend claims that her high school’s football cheerleaders used this in the mid-1980s:
KILL! KILL!
BLOOD MAKES THE GRASS GROW!
:eek:
I attended Haverford, a small Quaker college in Pennsylvania. Quakers, of course, are famous for being completely non-violent pacifists.
Our cheer was:
Fight, fight, inner light
Kill, Quakers, Kill!
The best college cheer is
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!
What do I win?
Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college cheer he’d ever heard!
One of the many U of Chicago fight songs:
Themistocles, Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War,
X squared, Y squared,
H2SO4.
Who for? What for?
Who we gonna yell for?
GO, MAROONS!
There are, unsurprisingly, several more equally erudite verses.
Die, you gravy-sucking pigs!
Try and score, you dirtbags!
Austin Peay (a college in Tennessee): “Let’s go Peay!”
In the 1970s, they had a basketball player named “Fly” Williams. The cheer was expanded to say, “The Fly is open. Let’s go Peay!”
Is there some clever double meaning or pun there? I don’t get it.
My son went to a Quaker high school and used this exact cheer–it made the opposing cross country teams quiver and quake. (Actually it made them give his team funny looks.)
He then went to the U of C. I never heard the Thucydides chant but it doesn’t surprise me at all.
Hey, Tigers! Hey Tigers!
We Just Beat The Hell Out Of You!
Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer Give 'Em Hell Alabama!
Favourite chant for *opponents *of Norwich City FC, England (to the tune of the Addams Family theme):
"Your father is your brother,
"Your sister is your mother,
"You like to fuck each other,
“The Norwich family!”
Rumours that incest is actually more prevalent in Norfolk than in the rest of the civilised world are, of course, completely unfounded.
Swing to the left
Swing to the right
Stand up sit down
fight fight fight!
I’ve always enjoyed Hotty Toddy at Ole Miss. That’s about the only one I can think of that impressed me a little bit the first time I heard it.