A Brief History of Cheerleading

A Brief History of Cheerleading
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The Girls Get into It
For the first few decades of its history, cheerleading was an all-male activity, but by the 1920s, women were joining as well. Nowadays more than 90% of America's cheerleading participants are female, though guys still make up half of the yell squads at the college level.