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1883-
Great Britain: students began cheering their favorite athletes
on at sporting events
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1884-
Princeton: Thomas Peebles started a yell of "Sis Boom Rah!"
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1889-
University of Minnesota: Johnny Campbell was the first
cheerleader. Campbell started yelling with a megaphone "Rah, Rah, Rah!
Ski-U-Mah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Minn-e-so-tah!"
After that people started calling him a yell leader
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1899-
University of Minnesota: Johnny and five guy friends organized
cheers, fight songs, and raised school pride. This was the first
cheerleading squad.
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1903-
Gamma Sigma is named the first cheerleading fraternity
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1910-
University of Illinois: held the first Homecoming Week
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1923-
University of Minnesota: Female students are allowed to cheer,
they bring tumbling and gymnastics to the routines
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1949-
Dallas: Herkimer has the first workshop under the NCA name
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1950-
Santa Cruz, Ca: Herkimer develops the Herkie jump and NCA in incorporated
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1953-
Herkimer founds the Cheerleading Supply Company
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1956-
Herkimer invents the
first pompom
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1960-
Baltimore: the Colts
add the first professional cheerleading squad in history
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1967-
Pop Warners
cheerleaders are added to pee wee football
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1968-
Fred Gasthoff
makes the first vinyl pompom
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1972-
Title IX was passed.
Varsity is founded, so was the famous Dallas Cowboys
Cheerleaders
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1973-
Cheerleaders start
cheering for women's sports
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1974-
Jeff Webb quits his job with NCA and starts up UCA
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1976- UCA shows
their first liberty (stunt) at summer camp
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1979- UCA shows
their first basket toss at a summer camp
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1980-
All Star squads start forming everywhere
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1995-
American Cheerleader Magazine make its debut
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1997-
15 states say that cheerleading is a sport
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1998-
Minnesota: The Cheerleading Alliance is founded
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1999-
ESPN on the record says that cheerleading is a sport
