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Great Britain: students began cheering their favorite athletes on at sporting events
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Princeton: Thomas Peebles started a yell of "Sis Boom Rah!"
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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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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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Gamma Sigma is named the first cheerleading fraternity
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University of Illinois: held the first Homecoming Week
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University of Minnesota: Female students are allowed to cheer, they bring tumbling and gymnastics to the routines
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Dallas: Herkimer has the first workshop under the NCA name
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Santa Cruz, Ca: Herkimer develops the Herkie jump and NCA in incorporated
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Herkimer founds the Cheerleading Supply Company
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Herkimer invents the first pompom
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Baltimore: the Colts add the first professional cheerleading squad in history
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Pop Warners cheerleaders are added to pee wee football
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Fred Gasthoff makes the first vinyl pompom
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Title IX was passed. Varsity is founded, so was the famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
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Cheerleaders start cheering for women's sports
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Jeff Webb quits his job with NCA and starts up UCA
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UCA shows their first liberty (stunt) at summer camp
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UCA shows their first basket toss at a summer camp
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All Star squads start forming everywhere
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American Cheerleader Magazine make its debut
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15 states say that cheerleading is a sport
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Minnesota: The Cheerleading Alliance is founded
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ESPN on the record says that cheerleading is a sport