Gobears49 said:
Gobears49 said:
Big C said:
Gobears49 said:
Big C said:
bearister said:
Who was the "It's on the table, the Black label….it's in the locka, a 5th of vodka…"
Cheer dude?
Ben Dixon. He was pretty good. "Oh yeah!"
What year or year did Ben Dixon do his Black label yell.
Just had an idea. We get five or more old Cal yell leaders to hand a whole game and let the youngsters watch, and learn. If I get a lot of good responses to that I could send the list to our AD, Knowlton, who I sometime correspond with. I would tell him that most Cal yell leaders are not up to snuff and the youngsters need to see how the great one, with confidence and balls, lead a yell. Must be some new ones out there who would be inspired by what worked in the past.
I wanna say he was yell leader in '77 and '78?
Alumni Yell Leader Day! I like the idea, in theory, but it might meet some of the same resistance that Ken got. Ideally, the students (yell leaders, band, all of that) would want to get together with folks who have done it before (maybe over the summer?), so they don't have to keep reinventing the wheel.
The key word there is "ideally".
Maybe the older yell leaders could send in videos of their best yells to a predetermined list of old and new yell leaders, along with their telephone numbers so younger yell leaders could call them for explanations of the yells and when to lead them Might be fun if all of them were posted on BI for comments from readers. I would do my call and response yell and my basketball game yell, which I've offered some money to lead again at that venue (but the band needs to learn to play "The Middle" like they did a few years ago). Am thinking of explaining how that yell goes, as the refrain matches certain parts of the refrain words to that song. Would be equivalent to Stnaford's theme rock song, "All Right Now" with the famous "Stanford Jump."
Don't know the exact years but Bob Tuck did his California spellout from the speaker poll on the east side of the stadium, just south of the student section. Bob's statement of when he was a yell leader at Cal is wrong -- it was in 1970, the same year as me. He probable led yells from the speaker poll most games in the 70's and 80's. I'd suggest he do it again, just to show what guts and flare he had, but now he is too old for that and might kill himself. I guarantee nobody has done a stunt like that one, and I'm sure he did it several times. For one thing, it's much too dangerous.
I checked and there is no mention of Bob's gorilla escapade at USC on the internet. I couldn't even find video of him leading the Cal spellout from a speaker poll. I might try to contact him to see if he has one and any video of his "gorilla steals the football" at USC.
My call and response yell (created it to impress a very cute UCLA song girl I liked a lot but forgot to ever do it for her, a huge regret on my part. At that time UCLA song girls were rated #1 in the country, ahead of USC.
(Slow claps -- Cal side responds to my questions "Cal Bears") Claps by the students are on the word "Bears" and they clap rhythmically to the beat during my lines.
My yell lines --
One two three, tell me who are we? (student response -- Cal Bears). Same for all lines below.
Three four five, whose the best alive?
Six, seven, eight, tell me whose lookin' great?
Eight, nine ten, tell me whose gonna win?
Ten down to nine, tell me whose lookin' fine?
Nine, eight, seven, whose got the best eleven?
Seven down to six, tell me who'll get their licks?
Six, five, four, whose ahead in the score? (Note, I was going to lead my yell at the end of the 1982 The Play year, but Stanford had just scored to go ahead right before The Play occurred, but I couldn't because Stanford, rather than Cal, was then ahead in the score, thus making my this line, and the yell)
Three, two, one, who has just begun?
(Point to the alumni side) The alumni can't hear, so yell it loud and clear.
You're sounding' so fine, so yell it one more time.
