College Football Traditions and Rivalries by Morrow Gift

Author:Morrow Gift
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Waving the Wheat

University of Kansas

One University of Kansas football tradition has an unknown origin, and to watch it happen is truly mesmerizing.

Jayhawks fans are constantly surrounded by wheat fields in Lawrence, Kansas, where KU is situated. Thus, it makes a lot of sense that one of the oldest athletics traditions at their school makes spectators feel like they’re standing in the middle of a giant wheat field.

After important moments during football games—like after each touchdown—Jayhawks fans put both arms into the air and slowly wave them back and forth. This may be done with or without a unified rhythm, and sections and rows don’t move uniformly in the same direction.

This seemingly haphazard structure to the waving of the wheat is by design, and the crowd inside Memorial Stadium actually looks like a field of wheat slowly waving in the Kansas breeze.

To stand inside all of those waving arms in the stadium is to know what it’s like to be a single stalk of wheat in a much larger meadow, to be both an individual and part of a larger whole. And that’s what it’s like to be one voice in a chorus of fans cheering for the Jayhawks!

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