This series of wahs and hoorahs are an excellent way of expressing your excitement at sports games or any other time you want to show a little bit of school spirit. In a grocery store parking lot as a Tech fan scowls at your UVA bumper sticker, for example. To be sung arm in arm with those around you at the conclusion of any game, when the football team scores a touchdown, when any relatively sentimental event Lighting of the Lawn, Convocation, Graduation, etc.
Lyrics are as follows:. It cheers our hearts and warms our blood to hear them shout and roar. We come from old Virginia where all is bright and gay. But, like, probably?? Old Cabell — One of three buildings constructed on the South end of the Lawn during the Stanford White renovations of Now the home of a cappella performances, fancy paintings, and the music library.
Quite bougie. Both of these guesses were quickly proven false. The idea supposedly stems from Jefferson, who believed that there was no end to learning. Alternatively, this lingo makes us sound more similar to students at Hogwarts, which is obviously a plus. Frequented by dogs, Charlottesville residents, and students alike. Lawnie — A student who resides in one of the Lawn Rooms.
Usually has cured cancer, solved world hunger, or something of the like. Super extra awesome person who is capable of living without a kitchen or personal shower.
The Wahoowa cheer reportedly originated in the s as a spin on Virginia's alma mater song "Auld Lang Syne. It took on another meaning in the 20th century, as the term wahoos refers to a fish that can drink twice its weight.
As Virginia earned a reputation as a party school, rivals began to deem the Cavaliers, "wahoos. It seems as though Virginia fans have steered into the skid over the past century, owning "Wahoowa" as a rallying cry for students and alumni. James Conner looks to stay hot with another favorable matchup. Dalton Schultz looks to bounce back in Week 10 vs. Time to honor the sacrifices of those people who have served in the armed forces—a group that includes several athletes.
The Bucs and Ryan Succop should see a ton of scoring opportunities against a porous Football Team defense. In recent years, the Hoos nickname has become the sole nickname used by students and recent alumni of the University, and it is also commonly used in the media in reference to UVA sports teams.
Another theory, and most popular amongst students and alumni, is that it derives from the wahoo fish, supposedly notorious for drinking copious amounts of liquid up to three times its body weight to puff itself up for a fight. A final theory that it is a back-formation from the cheer "wah-hoo-wah" which was invented at Dartmouth but there is no theory suggesting why the University would have adopted a nickname based on another school's cheer.
The cheer of "wah-hoo-wah" was however used by fans rooting for UVA as early as the s. And according to official UVA publications, the legend does not derive from Dartmouth.
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