On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Dave Wollstadt wrote:
 
> This leaves me with a question. I remember distinctly hearing such a cheer by
> the Cornell University student section in the early 1990s, when Hockey East
> and the ECAC both held their league tournaments on the same weekend at the
> Boston Garden (the event was called "Hockeyfest"). The question, obviously,
> is who copied who? Did Cornell have that cheer (and others) first, and some
> enterprising Wolverine copied them, or vice versa?
 
I first heard of the sieve chant when reading an article about the
Wisconsin Badger's 1973 championship.  I personally have heard it in
the Great Dane since 1979.
 
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