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This document provides information about cheerleading including its history and components. It traces the origins of cheerleading back to the 1860s in Great Britain and discusses how it was brought to American universities by students in the late 1800s. Initially an all-male activity, women began participating as cheerleaders in the 1920s. The document also lists different body positions, hand positions, and arm positions that are part of cheerleading routines.

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This document provides information about cheerleading including its history and components. It traces the origins of cheerleading back to the 1860s in Great Britain and discusses how it was brought to American universities by students in the late 1800s. Initially an all-male activity, women began participating as cheerleaders in the 1920s. The document also lists different body positions, hand positions, and arm positions that are part of cheerleading routines.

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PEH Notes

Dance Competitions - The yellers, dancers, and


athletes involved cheerleader
- Dancers show off and compare are called cheerleaders.
their skills with others. - Cheerleader when group
together as one they are called
Author Unknown squad.

- A good cheerleader is not


measured by the height of her History of Cheerleading
jumps but by the span of her
spirit. - Linked closely to the United
States history of sports,
Cheer Dance sporting venues, as well as the
historical development of
- Emerged during the early overall crown participation at
1990’s as part of the many athletic events. (History
cheerleading events. of Cheerleading, 2015)
- One of categories in
Cheerleading Competition - 19th Century where in 1860’s
that focuses on dance students from Great Britain
techniques and basic elements begun to cheer and chant
of cheerleading, excluding unison for their favorite athletes
stunts and dance gymnastics at sporting events. Eventually
skills. reach and influenced America
- The performers are (Timeline of Cheerleading,
cheerleaders and not just 2012)
dancers.
- First yell done in locomotive
Cheerleading style was performed in an
American Campus and was
- An event that consists of first seen and hear during a
cheers and organized routines college football game.
for sports team motivation,
audience entertainment, or - All men cheerleading
competition. transpired when Thomas
- Routines contain many Peebles, one of the graduate of
components of cheers, jumps, Princeton University, brought
dance, gymnastics, and the yell and the football sport to
stunting. the University of Minnesota in
1884.
Lobo, Frances Joeanah C.
PEH Notes

15. K Motion
16.Checkmark
- Initiative of Johnny
Campbell, who was a student Body Position
of the University of Minnesota,
that cheerleading officially 1. Beginning Stance
begun in November 2, 1898. 2. Cheer Stance
3. Side Lunge
- Cheerleading for the first 25 4. Squat
years was an all-male activity.

- During 1920s when woman


cheerleaders participated in
cheerleading.

Hand Positions

1. Bucket
2. Candle Sticks
3. Blade
4. Jazz Hands
5. Clap
6. Clasp

Arm Positions

1. Flying V
2. Low V
3. T Motion
4. Half T
5. Touchdown
6. Low Touchdown
7. Bow and Arrow
8. Muscle Man
9. Overhead Clasp
10. Dagger
11. Box
12. Punch
13. L Motion
14.Diagonal

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