The history of cheerleading originates from the United States in the late 1880′s with your intermediate crowd yelling and cantillating to give hope or courage to their team. No one is rather sure how they documented that it was the original cheer ever but credit is given to Princeton University in 1884 for coming up with a Princeton cheer and marking there place in cheerleading history.

Then a few years later, the Princeton graduate Tom Peebles brought cheering to the University of Minnesota. But it wasn’t until 1898 that fellow University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed what was the very initial cheer ever in November of 1898. The story is that Minnesota was having such a terrible football season that people felt the need to come up with positive chants and cheering was born. Minnesota went on to coordinate a male cheer squad in 1903 and coordinated the primary cheerleading fraternity in the history of cheerleading, Gamma Sigma. Ironically sufficient cheerleading started out as an all male sport, it was felt there deep piercing voices were more projecting than a woman’s voice. It wasn’t until the 1920′s that women became much more involved in cheerleading and begun to integrate gymnastics, pyramids and throws. Today, youth cheerleading is predominantly made up of female cheerleaders nevertheless college cheerleading is still regarding fifty percent male.

Well, the students cheered all they could for Minnesota yet they still got beat. It was a student’s scientific thesis that positive fan aid would genuinely help send positive energy toward there team and aid them in winning. Well, the cheer wasn’t sufficient to garner a win but it did invent a new sport. University of Minnesota stuck with the idea and finally started out to have an coordinated group of cheers at each game

The evolution of cheerleading to a sport was again developed by The University of Minnesota as the women became known for there athletic capacity by including gymnastics in their routines. Then in the 1930′s the sport developed into much more of a display of showmanship as the athletes become much more agreeably diverting and fun to watch. The megaphone would become the next huge addition to cheerleading history in the early 1900′s and the pom pom which was introduced by Lawrence Herkimer actually gave cheerleading a symbol to hang it is hat on.

Herkimer has to be seen as the grandfather of cheerleading. He has done so much for the history of cheerleading by founding the National Cheerleading Association at S M U and keeping cheerleading schools way back in 1946 and ’47. Herkimer’s camps have now grown to over twenty thousand attendees.

Today the sport has evolved into a highly athletic and competitory field displaying males and females of unbelievable talent. Herkimer and University of Minnesota have carved out a distinguishable history of cheerleading.

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