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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: Galway Eagle on September 28, 2017, 08:24:43 AM
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Curious when this started. Read some articles this AM that suggested either DePaul or Penn State started it in the 70s. Can anyone remember when this started for us?
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Curious when this started. Read some articles this AM that suggested either DePaul or Penn State started it in the 70s. Can anyone remember when this started for us?
I remember it when I got there in the 80's
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I remember it when I got there in the 80's
They were doing in 79 when I got there, but I have the DVD of the 1977 Championship game and you could here MU fans doing in the background then, so it goes at least that far back.
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I think at MU it may go back as far as the early 70's. I remember a poster saying he began the chant.
Penn State claims to have originated the chant around 1976.
As a kid I somewhat remember the crowd chanting "We Are (clap clap), SC (clap clap)" at USC in the OJ days (68-69)
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They were chanting "WE ARE...(clap,clap) MARQUETTE at the first game in the fall of 1971.
I had assumed that this was an original MU thing, and had been a long time tradition.
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I ALWAYS remember it and I've been going to games for 50 years or pretty close. (It's the one thing I knew how to do when I was 7 or 8!)
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I recall chanting it in the original Latin.
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Somewhat related to this thread: I was at church with my wife and 3-year old son last month and he started chanting "We Are Marquette" during the service. I did very little to stop him resulting in absolute daggers from my better half.
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I recall chanting it in the original Latin.
Winner!
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I recall Gary Brell saying how he thought it was a lame cheer....that puts it in the mid '70's
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I recall Gary Brell saying how he thought it was a lame cheer....that puts it in the mid '70's
Brell played 1969-71, so it might put it early 70`s.
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They were doing in 79 when I got there, but I have the DVD of the 1977 Championship game and you could here MU fans doing in the background then, so it goes at least that far back.
I do remember the "Warriors Warriors" chant from the 70's.
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I was a freshman in the fall of 1970 and attended every home game of that glorious season. We chanted it.
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As long as I can remember it has been chanted at MU games. I go back to '68 and it has been there the whole time.
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I recall chanting it in the original Latin.
This is great.
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I recall chanting it in the original Latin.
Nos Marquette Sumis
I think I'm close been a long time
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Cavemen.
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I was a freshman in the fall of 1971. We were doing it then.
DePaul stole it from us. They weren't doing it until later in the 70's at a minimum, certainly not at the games I attended there when MU played there while I was a student. They certainly didn't start it.
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Cavemen.
Pleeeeaaaaase
Humanus Incavo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Marquette
He showed great proficiency in learning the local languages, especially Huron, but he would always introduce himself with "je suis Marquette," a phrase that over the years would become ubiquitous in the region.
"Je suis Marquette," obviously, translates to "I am Marquette." Those who returned in Father Jacques stead would then introduce themselves with "nous sommes Marquette" (we are Marquette).
[Aside: Listen, I'm all for responding to sarcasm with sarcasm, but it's clear that PiperPuncher is legitimately asking a question here. I'm ashamed that I had to be the one to answer the origin of the "We are Marquette" call.]
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I was only able to make it to one game last season, but we chanted it then.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Marquette
"Je suis Marquette," obviously, translates to "I am Marquette." Those who returned in Father Jacques stead would then introduce themselves with "nous sommes Marquette" (we are Marquette).
[Aside: Listen, I'm all for responding to sarcasm with sarcasm, but it's clear that PiperPuncher is legitimately asking a question here. I'm ashamed that I had to be the one to answer the origin of the "We are Marquette" call.]
Let's see I got the Spelling AND word order wrong, I guess it hasn't been that long, I think that was the case back then also
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Let's see I got the Spelling AND word order wrong, I guess it hasn't been that long, I think that was the case back then also
Benny is translating to French. Latin would be "Marquette Sumus" according to my Google translator.
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Is there a Banner involved>
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We are Marquette!
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From 69 on I have heard the MU "We Are" cheer.
I distinctly remember being bothered when we heard some DePaulers in the late 70s doing the "we are" thing...and back then I believed MU invented it...dont know that now, but I would strongly agree Depaul were simply later knock offers of us. Depaul back then (Ray Myers, Corzine, et al)was always quite amusing as they thought we were their archrivals and .....MUers did not reciprocate.
Personally, I considered ND the archrival (no UW wasnt no 1 archrival to MU in the 70s...at least in my view) but...I think ND looked at UCLA in BB and USC in FB as bigger games, along with the Mich game. Domers here would know better what ND thought
Any how .....nowadays whenever I am watching MU BB on TV and start clapping the We Are cheer ...My Wife quickly blurts out ...We Are Marshall...that darn movie makes it look like their cheer
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(https://marquettewire.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Killed-the-cat-painting.jpg)
I always thought "numen flumenque" translated to "white man stand in boat".
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I just assumed UW invented it years ago, MU copied them and then they moved on to inventing Jump Around.
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Any y’all able ta translate inta jive, hey?
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MU invented Jump Around at sporting events too
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I recall chanting it in the original Latin.
Nunc est bibendum
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I looked at the Wikipedia link, and I do not see the line about Je suis Marquette. Did somebody edit it out that is against our claim?
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I looked at the Wikipedia link, and I do not see the line about Je suis Marquette. Did somebody edit it out that is against our claim?
Damn... those vandalism filters are getting pretty sophisticated.
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Damn... those vandalism filters are getting pretty sophisticated.
So Benny is gonna Benny?
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Damn... those vandalism filters are getting pretty sophisticated.
I actually saw it in there and figured it might have been true. I'm still trying to find gullible on the ceiling, but it's taking awhile.
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i Was a Freshman in 1967 and heard the cheer at our 1st game, which, I recall was against St. Thomas of MN. I initially thought it an odd cheer (that's why I recall it vividly), but quickly became a big 'fan' of the "We Are Marquette" cheer.
BTW, my wife and I attended a MU at Penn State game in 1978 (defending National Champions is how we were introduced!) and never heard the PS faithful utter a single "We are Penn State" cheer. Perhaps they did have it, but I didn't hear it that day.
Finally, I have always thought that this was an original MU cheer, but had no proof. So, as it happens, in conversation with a co-ed grad who was a cheerleader in the mid-1950's (this conversation occurred around 2009), she confirmed that she led the "We are.. cheer back then.
Still, no definitive proof, but we can go back as far as the mid 1950's based on this person's memory, which I believe to be accurate.
MU - 1971 - Only undefeated regular season 26 - 0
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BTW, my wife and I attended a MU at Penn State game in 1978 (defending National Champions is how we were introduced!) and never heard the PS faithful utter a single "We are Penn State" cheer.
Because they are ashamed.
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Because they are ashamed.
"WE ARE deliberating on whether we are PENN STATE."
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BTW, my wife and I attended a MU at Penn State game in 1978 (defending National Champions is how we were introduced!) and never heard the PS faithful utter a single "We are Penn State" cheer. Perhaps they did have it, but I didn't hear it that day.
Interesting, I've been a Penn State since I was old enough to remember and I've always heard/known the We are Penn State thing.....in fact when I first got to MU I thought we stole it from them. My dad graduated in 73 from PSU and doesn't have any recollection of it being done then so I'm assuming PSU stole it from MU.