YALE-PRINCETON | Who but Yale cheers in ancient Greek?
Leave it to Yalies to cheer in ancient Greek at a football game.
Tomorrow during the Yale-Princeton game, Yale Cheerleading will be reintroducing the “Long Cheer,” a traditional chant first used at football games in the 1880s. The team is performing the cheer, written half in Greek and half in English, at the request of alumni Robert O’Connor ’48 and Frank Gibson ’49, who will be attending the game.
The words of the chant come from Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy “The Frogs,” written in 405 BCE. Legend has it that Yalies studying Greek in 1884 thought that...
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