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Originally Posted by 88-31-10  | That isn't the origin of it, the way I heard it.... it doesn't mean a thing. It is just some words they put together that sounded good with the sound of the train they were riding on. Quote: |
As they traveled, they talked of the need for a good, rousing yell. The click-clack of the train wheels passing over the rail joints suggested a rhythm and a cadence to them. At first, their version was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times. Later, in place of the rahs, an English professor suggested "Rock Chalk," a transposition of chalk rock, the name for the limestone outcropping found on Mount Oread, site of the Lawrence campus.
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