And what is a Jayhawk?
2007-03-08 17:07:45 · 1 answers · asked by Scottie Boy 6 in Sports ➔ Basketball
it developed from rah rah and because it rhymes with jayhawk
was created on a train and the sounds it makes
2007-03-08 17:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by truthistold2u 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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Hey Kansas fans, what does "Rock Chalk" mean?
And what is a Jayhawk?
2015-08-18 23:21:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
KU's world famous Rock Chalk Chant evolved from a cheer that a chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey, created for the KU science club in 1886. Bailey's version was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times. The rahs were later replaced by "Rock Chalk," a transposition of chalk rock, the name for the limestone outcropping found on Mount Oread, site of the Lawrence campus.
The cheer became known worldwide. Teddy Roosevelt pronounced it the greatest college chant he'd ever heard. Legend has it that troops used the chant when fighting in the Philippines in 1899, in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and in 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.
http://www.ku.edu/about/traditions/chant.shtml
The Jayhawk is a mythical bird, a cross between two hunting birds--the noisy blue jay and the quiet sparrow hawk. The term came to prominence just before the Civil War, in Bleeding Kansas, where it was adopted by militant abolitionist groups known as jayhawkers. With the admission of Kansas as a free state in 1861, Jayhawker became synonymous with the people of Kansas. The Jayhawk appears in several Kansas cheers, most notably, the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" chant. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks
2007-03-08 17:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by uoptiger_79 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋