I was googling "Nov. 28 Cornell" to see if Cornell might be on North Dakota's hockey schedule for that date in 2009, as rumored on another thread. I instead found this great football story from 1891.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F07E6DA1339E033A2575AC2A9679D94609ED7CF&oref=slogin
"Tin horns and whistles were frozen, but the Cornell yell was a hair-raiser."
I would love to know what the Cornell yell actually sounded like back in the day. I wrote a little bit about it last year, but still have yet to actually get a sense for what the cheer would actually sound like.
http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2007/05/the_cornell_battle_cry.shtml