... referred to as "yell leaders", whose job was to make-up chants and get the crowds excited (Torgovnick 17). Then in 1898, at the University of Minnesota, Johnny Campbell, a yell-leader, darted in front of his fellow students to lead them in a cheer. "For the next forty years, male cheerleaders used megaphones, noise-makers, jumps, flips, and chants ... ...

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