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To: ichabod1

“... Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Minn-e-so-tah! (varsity.com)”

Heavy Rock Chalk “slide....”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Chalk,_Jayhawk

The chant was first adopted by the university’s science club in 1886. Chemistry professor E.H.S. Bailey and his colleagues were returning by train to Lawrence after a conference. During their travel, they discussed a need of a rousing yell. They came up with “Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, Go KU”,[1] repeated three times, which later became “Rock Chalk Jayhawk Go KU”.

Kansas troops used it in the Philippine–American War in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion, and World War II.[4] In the 1911 Border War football game, over 1,000 fans gathered in downtown Lawrence to listen to a “broadcast” of the game by telegraph and participated in cheers including the Rock Chalk.[5]

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Former United States President Theodore Roosevelt called the Rock Chalk chant the best college chant he ever heard.[6] snip...
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And in Topeka there is Washburn U and the Ichabods!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washburn_University

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460 posted on 02/08/2021 4:24:05 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Ichabods. I did not know about that. That is wild and wacky stuff. I like it!


492 posted on 02/08/2021 5:18:31 PM PST by ichabod1 (#notmypresident #resisttyranny #resisttranny)
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