Trivia: Gimme a Cheer

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "The power of imagination makes us infinite."
HINT: Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

RANDOM TIDBITS

A favorite cheerleading tune, the video for Toni Basil's number one hit song "Mickey" included real-life cheerleaders. Toni's uniform was real as well; the "LVH" patch stood for Las Vegas High, where she was on the squad in the early 1960s.
Many of the stunts performed in the 2000 film Bring It On, including the fly-overs and the basket tosses with head-over-heels rotation, are illegal in competitions at the high school level because of safety concerns.
The first organized chant that occurred during a football game at Princeton in the 1880s:
Rah, Rah, Rah!
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!
Sis, Sis, Sis!
Boom, Boom, Boom!
Aaaah! Princeton,
Princeton, Princeton!
The Washington Redskins cheerleaders are the oldest active cheerleading organization in the NFL. The First Ladies of Football made their debut as the Redskinettes on September 30, 1962.
Cheerleading was an all-male sport until World War II summoned the fittest men overseas. When the war ended, co-ed squads became the norm, as the teams could perform more dramatic stunts using the lighter-weight female cheerleaders.
The quintessential cheerleading jump, the Herkie, was invented by and named for Lawrence Herkimer. Herkimer developed the move, which features the right arm thrust upward and one leg bent behind, in order to gain more height in his jumps while serving on the Southern Methodist University cheerleading squad.
QUOTE: "The power of imagination makes us infinite."
ANSWER: John Muir.

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