A cheer is a longer, more spirited yell that may utilize a variety of motions and stunts, that is perfomed only during official breaks in a game.
| Cheering for favorites in competitions has benn going on for close to thousands of years, even the runners int he first olympic race in Greece in 776 B.C had their fans rooting for them. The first known american collage cheer was invented in the 1880's by a Princeton Pep club. |
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One thing that keeps the crowd focused on the cheerleaders while they are doing a cheer is their bright and shiny pom pons. Paper poms were introduced in the 1930's, and vinly ones were invented in the 1960's. |
| There are two types of cheers, main cheers and sidelines. Sidelines are also known as chants. Main cheers are alot longer and usually invole harder movements than sideline cheers. |
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Here
is an example of a chant...
Defense! Do it all! Steal that ball! |
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is an example of a main cheer...
Hey fans! Help us out! Make some noise and shout it out! Everybody yell G-O! G-O! Everybody yell fight fight! Everybody yell W-I-N, yell it now W-I-N! Let me hear you say GO FIGHT WIN! Come on! GO FIGHT WIN! |
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