rock chalk ....

[brunoflipper]

holy crap, now THAT was a game...
i have no voice and my head is killing me...
i'm so impressed with bill self and the jayhawks ability to stay in the game...

i'm thrilled that i spent 7 years at KU... most importantly, being a kansan and attending KU for eight years, my wife is crimson and blue through and through... for eleven years i've had to deal with her being pissed when they lost... but TODAY, mama is happy and so am i...

rock chalk jayhawk, indeed...

[cannon_fodder]

Well congrats to the Kansas.  I was cheering the other way but having the 3rd TU coach win a National Championship isn't a bad consolation prize.  A really great game above all else.

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper
i'm thrilled that i spent 7 years at KU... rock chalk jayhawk, indeed...

If only you would have graduated...

[kylieosu]

What a GREAT game! I got no sleep last night because I was so amped up after watching it...then of course the storms hit.

[brunoflipper]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper
i'm thrilled that i spent 7 years at KU... rock chalk jayhawk, indeed...

If only you would have graduated...

no kidding... someday i'll transfer my credits to tcc...

[Breadburner]

Memphis choked bigtime...

[Conan71]

Bruno or Swake, please enlighten me, where does the term "rock chalk" come from when speaking of the Jayhawks?

My daughter's gymnastics coach was a KU alum and he would wear sweatshirts that had that slogan.  I always assumed it had something do to with their gymnastics program (you chalk up before doing a bar routine).  I'd since figured out it wasn't limited to gymnastics but have never solved the mystery of where it originated.

Congrats Jayhawks.  What a season!

[swake]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Bruno or Swake, please enlighten me, where does the term "rock chalk" come from when speaking of the Jayhawks?

My daughter's gymnastics coach was a KU alum and he would wear sweatshirts that had that slogan.  I always assumed it had something do to with their gymnastics program (you chalk up before doing a bar routine).  I'd since figured out it wasn't limited to gymnastics but have never solved the mystery of where it originated.

Congrats Jayhawks.  What a season!

The "Rock Chalk" chant dates to 1866, when it was adopted by the University Science Club. A chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey and some of his associates were returning to Lawrence from Wichita on a train. As the story goes, they passed the time by trying to create a rousing cheer. The sound of the train's wheels on the rails suggested a rhythm and a cadence to them. At first, the cheer was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times.

Even though KU didn't have a football team until four years later, KU students quickly took up the chant. Later, an English professor suggested "Rock Chalk," in place of "Rah, Rah" because it rhymed with Jayhawk and because it was symbolic of the limestone, also known as chalk rock, surrounding Mount Oread, the site of the Lawrence Campus. It became the official cheer of the University in 1897.

U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he has ever heard. Kansas troops have used it in the Philippine-American War in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion in China and World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU's Rock Chalk and rendered it for His Majesty.