Who stole whose cheers?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[Q]
On a related note, does anyone know when we started shouting out "RED" during the anthem?[/q]


I can bound that one to between 85 and 96, too.

[Robb]

Pretty sure "RED!" was in full force in the fall of 1990, too, so with Jeff's memory, that narrows it down to between 85 and 90.

[Beeeej]

Pretty sure "RED!" wasn't yet in wide use in 1988, but I couldn't swear to it.

Beeeej

[Scersk '97]

Yep, we shouted "Red" and the fans shouted at us.  Standard things about it being disgraceful, etc.  The only proper response was "Oh, Canada!"

[Scott]

Pretty sure that puts it in at '89 using my supreme math and deduction skills.  Learned, of course, on the Hill.

[KenP]

I will stake claim to the key-jingling tradition.  Not entirely sure which season.  I think it was during the rout of Colgate in the Spring '91 ECAC quarterfinals.  Anyway, we scored another goal with an appropriately large lead and appropriately little time on the clock.  I pulled out my keys in lieu of "go start the bus", and it spread pretty quickly.  After all the screaming, it was very eerie to hear nothing but keys jingling.

[Beeeej]

[Q]KenP Wrote:
I will stake claim to the key-jingling tradition.  Not entirely sure which season.  I think it was during the rout of Colgate in the Spring '91 ECAC quarterfinals.  Anyway, we scored another goal with an appropriately large lead and appropriately little time on the clock.  I pulled out my keys in lieu of "go start the bus", and it spread pretty quickly.  After all the screaming, it was very eerie to hear nothing but keys jingling.[/q]
I'm nearly sure there was key-jingling during the 1989 and 1990 hockey seasons - and I'm 100% positive that it was being done at Cornell football games during the fall of 1987, which makes it kind of hard to imagine you introduced it to Lynah in 1991.

If only I could find my copy of "Section D Tonight" from Nov. 1987, I'd have more answers!!

Beeeej

[Greg Berge]

Key jingling goes waaaay back.  People at Montreal Canadian games did it in the 1950's.

The first time I heard keys come out at a game at Lynah was in the 1990 QF against Harvard.

[Sam]

A lot of schools with better football fans jingle keys (Ann Arbor - 110,000 keyrings jingling together) on 3rd down when it's a "key stop" or I guess any 4th down.

I'll be jingling _my_ keys tomorrow afternoon against Penn

LGR

-- Sam

[CUlater 89]

[Q]Sam Wrote:

 A lot of schools with better football fans jingle keys (Ann Arbor - 110,000 keyrings jingling together) on 3rd down when it's a "key stop" or I guess any 4th down.

I'll be jingling _my_ keys tomorrow afternoon against Penn

LGR

-- Sam[/q]

And Penn fans have traditionally jingled their keys before key plays as well.

[jeh25]

[Q]Robb Wrote:

 I can narrow down the standing students a little more.  I'm positive when I went to my first game in the fall of '90, my brother ('92) explained to me that the students stood until after the first goal.  The next few years saw some home shutouts (3 in 92-93!) and undoubtedly some other games where it took Cornell forever to score, so we just kind of started standing for the whole game.

Not sure when the transition from sitting to standing-until-the-first-goal took place.[/q]

I can't give you a when, but basketball fans at the Carrier Dome have stood until the first basket  for as long as I can remember. I strongly suspect the tradition just migrated down I81.

[ugarte]

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:

 Key jingling goes waaaay back.  People at Montreal Canadian games did it in the 1950's.

The first time I heard keys come out at a game at Lynah was in the 1990 QF against Harvard.[/q]
The first time I heard keys at Lynah was the first game after hearing Brown's fans on the radio jangle keys at us during the game at Brown in the '90-'91 season. We definitely weren't taking out the keys the year before during my first (half)season watching the Red.