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...takes 1000 men, 500 on each side, to play a college ball game. Nine of each 500 play ball, and 491 yell. The yelling is quite as important as the playing, and the yellers work just as hard. - New York Times. The '88-'90 game of last Tuesday will bear witness to the above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1887 | See Source »

...five Harvard men made their presence known by red bunting and enthusiastic cheers. Although their early attempts at cheering were greeted with derisive cries of "Rats" from the New York populance yet they persevered, and as the game went on the populace became less obtrusive, and the only college yell to be heard was that of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Season Begun. | 5/2/1887 | See Source »

...class yell of '90 at Rochester is "Zoo-zoo-zi-se. yi-yi-nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

...Cornell Sun takes exception to the account of the Cornell cheer which appeared originally in the Yale News and then in the CRIMSON. It says "It is needless to add that the writer does not know what the Cornell yell is. For his benefit we will say that "Cornell! I yell! yell yell! Cornell!" is the only recognised slogan of the students of the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking. The cry of Cornell is doubtless noisiest and most irreverent of college cheers, still it has a certain vigor about it that is attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like - H-ll! Cor-nell! It is needless to add that the female members of the university prefer it as it stood originally. - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/20/1886 | See Source »

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