Great Britain: students began cheering their favorite athletes on at sporting events
Princeton: Thomas Peebles started a yell of "Sis Boom Rah!"
University of Minnesota: Johnny Campbell was the first cheerleader. Campbell started yelling with a megaphone "Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-U-Mah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Minn-e-so-tah!" After that people started calling him a yell leader
University of Minnesota: Johnny and five guy friends organized cheers, fight songs, and raised school pride. This was the first cheerleading squad.
Gamma Sigma is named the first cheerleading fraternity
University of Illinois: held the first Homecoming Week
University of Minnesota: Female students are allowed to cheer, they bring tumbling and gymnastics to the routines
Dallas: Herkimer has the first workshop under the NCA name
Santa Cruz, Ca: Herkimer develops the Herkie jump and NCA in incorporated
Herkimer founds the Cheerleading Supply Company
Herkimer invents the first pompom
Baltimore: the Colts add the first professional cheerleading squad in history
Pop Warners cheerleaders are added to pee wee football
Fred Gasthoff makes the first vinyl pompom
Title IX was passed. Varsity is founded, so was the famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders start cheering for women's sports
Jeff Webb quits his job with NCA and starts up UCA
UCA shows their first liberty (stunt) at summer camp
UCA shows their first basket toss at a summer camp
All Star squads start forming everywhere
American Cheerleader Magazine make its debut
15 states say that cheerleading is a sport
Minnesota: The Cheerleading Alliance is founded
ESPN on the record says that cheerleading is a sport