O-H-I-O

[mohawkbaseball#1]

O-H

[know your role]

-IO! As in Ohio University, get your own cheers.

[seofan_via_dublin]

Get your own life and get rid of the inferiority complex.

OSU has been doing this longer than OU, and is far more widely known for it.

[seofan_via_dublin]

I-O

[Doc Panther]

U

SINCE 1804

1ST UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY

[seofan_via_dublin]

Yea, that's nice, and something everyone knows.

If this were a site dedicated to journalists, hippies, and halloween parties, they'd be #1 too.

[Brutus8907]

-IO! As in Ohio University, get your own cheers.

i've grown up in Athens and go to OU and i've never once heard that cheer done by OU fans. get a clue.

[seofan_via_dublin]

I went to OU, grew up going to many of their sporting events, and my wife's uncle works for them.

They don't use the OH-IO cheer, a few of them just wish they could.

I worked the game this past weekend and saw all of the "OSwho" and "We're Ohio, You're State" shirts. Also observed thousands of OU and OSU fans interacting and consuming large amounts of alcohol for 5+ hours. I can vouch for two things, 1) OSU fans couldn't have cared less for the OU fans, 2) If anyone acted like they were "better" than someone, it was the OU student contingent.

Let the Hippies out of the commune.

[Brutus8907]

yeah, when i saw those shirts start popping up in the book stores and whatnot i couldnt help but just slap myself in the forehead and ask why. i love my school but c'mon guys

[ballparent]

Regardless of any beginnings of any University, traditions are individual and established over time, and on both OU and OSU's school websites are recorded.

From the Ohio State University site.

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17300&KEY=&ATCLID=1275802

The Block O student section of the Ohio State University now leads the O-H-I-O chant which was started in 1938.

http://www.blocko.org/

The organized student cheering section - Block "O" - begins an around-the-stadium spelling of "O-H-I-O" by starting with "Hey, stadium … 'O!' '' and the letter chants begin a circle, south to west to north to east, spelling out Ohio (over and over again). In smaller settings, one Buckeye fan can approach another with a chant of "O-H!" The response is "I-O!"
After 64 years Block O continues to put school spirit into the hearts of Ohio State students and football fans.

Block O began in 1938, when OSU football cheerleader Clancy Issac saw a similar group during an away game and decided OSU needed its own student cheering section.

It was made up of about 15 OSU male cheerleaders, and they had to use colored paper for their stunts (words and letters students hold up during the game), said Andrew Brown, secretary of Block O.

Today Block O is a 1,200 student cheering section responsible for keeping the crowd in the game by starting chants such as O-H-I-O and the wave, besides doing the usual stunts.

Ohio University traditions link from the athletic site of the university, no where is the O-H-I-O chant mentioned.

http://ohiobobcats.cstv.com/trads/ohio-trads.html

[ballparent]

O - H - I - O

http://www.osu.edu/O-H-I-O/?DB_OEM_ID=17300

Go Bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Slim Jim]

Same thing but a different subject,Why is it OHIO Stadium? You are osu.That would be like Michigan State's Stadium being called Michigan Stadium.Doesn't make sense dose it? I know there is some sort of traditional horse crap to it.No pun intended Why not name the Stadium Woody Hayes Stadium or something?? They need to pay some omadge to him...

[know your role]

Okay, two things you great investigatory reporters.
1.) How dare you say that you saw OSU and Ohio students consuming large amounts of alcohol. Everyone knows that Ohio students are the only ones that drink. OSU fans are perfect little angels.

2.) Watch any OSU game and listen to the cheerleaders as they go in and out of television commercials. They always say let's go Ohio.

Lastly, the block O is about the only people that cheer at OSU games. The rest are a bunch of old, rich, alumni. "Ohio" Stadium presents no homefield advantage except for against Michigan. I will have to do some research during all of my free time and I will get back with you.

[seofan_via_dublin]

Same thing but a different subject,Why is it OHIO Stadium? You are osu.That would be like Michigan State's Stadium being called Michigan Stadium.Doesn't make sense dose it? I know there is some sort of traditional horse crap to it.No pun intended Why not name the Stadium Woody Hayes Stadium or something?? They need to pay some omadge to him...

The long answer:

As early as 1913, Ohio Field at High Street and Woodruff Avenue was unable to contain the crowds attracted to many Buckeye home football games, leading to faculty discussion of moving the site elsewhere and building a new facility. The growing popularity of football in Ohio led to the design of a horseshoe-shaped stadium, conceptualized and designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith in 1918. A public-subscription Stadium Campaign to fund the project was begun in October 1920 and raised over $1 million in pledges by January 1921, of which $975,000 was actually honored.

The stadium was completed in 1922 by E. H. Latham Company of Columbus with materials and labor from the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. at a construction cost of $1.34 million and a total cost of $1.49 million. The stadium's original capacity was 66,210, astronomical in size at the time. Many university officials feared that the stadium would never be filled to capacity.

Smith employed numerous revolutionary architectural techniques during the building of the stadium. At the base is a slurry wall, to keep out the waters from the Olentangy River. The stadium sits on the flood plain, giving it a precarious, but beautiful setting. Instead of building a large bowl, like the previously constructed Yale Bowl or later at Michigan Stadium, Ohio Stadium was designed to have an upper deck that would hang over part of the lower deck, giving Ohio Stadium its "A", "B", and "C" decks. Instead of employing numerous columns like those at Harvard Stadium, Smith designed double columns that allow for more space between columns. The rotunda at the north end of the stadium, which is now adorned with stained glass murals of the offensive and defensive squads that comprise the Buckeye football team, was designed to look like the dome at the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda also features yellow flowers on a blue background which according to legend is due to the outcome of the dedication game against the University of Michigan in 1922.

The first game in the stadium was against Ohio Wesleyan University on October 7, 1922, and brought a crowd of around 25,000, which left people concerned because the stadium was half empty. This concern was put to rest at the stadium's formal dedication against Michigan on October 21, which the Wolverines won. The crowd was announced at the game to be 72,000, but no one is really sure how many people made it into the stadium. This attendance mark was broken in a game against Michigan in 1925 when 90,411 came out to support the Buckeyes; this is also the last time standing-room-only tickets were sold for a game.

Short answer:

OSU football became to big for Ohio Field, so they built a stadium and called it Ohio Stadium. The Bobcats of OU began playing football in 1894. The Buckeyes of OSU began playing football in 1890, and moved games to their first true "home field" in 1898, this was Ohio Field.

As for honoring Woody, they have a tribute to him on the inside of the stadium just like they do for the Heisman winners and Chic Harley, the man who brought about the need for Ohio Stadium.

[on a mission]

O-H-I-O................O-H-I-O-

[mohawkbaseball#1]

O-H

[seofan_via_dublin]

USC

Blurt!!!

If you're going to hate, at least hate correctly USC's cheer is FIGHT ON