Fwd: [19cBB] Three Times Three a Tiger ?

[Gerald Cohen]

FYI, below my signoff is a message sent to the 19th Century Baseball
discussion group.

Gerald Cohen


>To: 19th Century Egroup <19cBB at yahoogroups.com>
>From: Lawrence McCray <mccrayl at bellatlantic.net>
>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:37:47 -0400
>Subject: [19cBB] Three Times Three a Tiger ?
>
>Folks --
>
>[A] First, Deano Thilgen asked,
>22 Oct 2003 19:15:46 -0500:
>
>"My question is, why was cheerleading associated
>with football early on, and less so with baseball?"
>
>----
>
>[B] Then, via Larry Horn, the American Dialect
>Society, thoughtfully offered:
>
>"My guess is that football originated as, and for a long time was
>still primarily, a college sport, while baseball is mostly associated
>with professional players, and cheerleading is something you do in
>school (high school or college). . . . "
>
>[C] And I now wonder:
>
>Well, sorta, but Williams College wasn't alone in playing
>hardball a long long time ago.
>
>Anyone building a General Theory of Cheerleading might
>want to accommodate these small facts [mostly drawn
>from the politically-incorrect century, admittedly]:
>
>[] Cheerleading is absent from college hockey, I think.
>[] To say nothing of college lawn tennis and college golf.
>[] Routinized cheering is said to be common in Japanese baseball.
>[] Routinized cheering [by the players themselves] is common in
>contemporary school-girl softball, at least in these parts.
>[] In the 1970s, [non-orchestrated] cheering was encouraged
>in the World Team Tennis circuit; but it didn't catch on.
>
>The American Dialect Society's explanation of the utterance
>"Sis - boom - bah" is hereby welcomed.
>
>Larry McCray
>
>--------------------------------------
>mccrayL at bellatlantic.net
>phone (703) 534-2238
>fax     (703) 534-1916
>