Parker has been a good sport about mangling her spelling during an impromptu Eagles cheer while talking about the snow last Sunday. She flubbed the chant, saying, “E-L-G-S-E-S!” “We have to ...
The chant was first written by students in 1901 ... Local historian Paul Waggoner, who researched the cheer’s origins and the history of the high school’s black students for the committee ...