PHYSICAL EDUCATION

WHO IS LAWRENCE HERKIMER

He founded the National Cheerleaders Association at

Southern Methodist University, holding cheerleading camps since

1948. His first camp drew 52 girls and one boy. His camps have since

grown to more than twenty thousand attendees.

UCA STAND FOR

was created in 1974 to

provide educational training for college and high school cheer

squads.

is an organized sports activity

involving short routines that combine dance,

gymnastics, and stunt elements to cheer on

teams, most commonly football.

Performers of

these one to three-minute routinesare called

Cheerleading dates to the ____, in Great Britain,and entered the US in

the ____ Although women currently dominate the field, cheerleading

was begun by men.

Princeton University in ____, got the idea that

crowd chanting at football games would boost school spirit so they

came up with a catchycheer.

A decade later Princeton grad and pep club member Thomas Peebles

introduced the ________ to the idea of chanting to a

crowd of spectators.

On ________ U- Minnesota student

Johnny Campbell led an organized cheer at a football game between

Minnesota and Princeton University,