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Snake dance

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A snake dance is a parade before or during a high-school event such as a football game. The parade includes floats built by each class, marching bands, students, and alumni.

The term may be used more narrowly to describe a student parade, a line of students celebrating, or a parade starting in a central business district or school location and ending with an evening bonfire and pep rally near the school. The University of Northern Iowa archives refer to a snake dance as early as 1922.[1] A 1911 Associated Press dispatch covering Philadelphia fans celebrating the Philadelphia Athletics victory in Game 2 of the 1911 World Series reported, "Staid business and professional men joined their office boys and ragged urchins in a snake dance around city hall".[2]

References

  1. ^ "library.uni.edu". library.uni.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
  2. ^ "Quaker City Fans All Enthusiasm". Herald-Journal. 18 October 1911. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
  • Tarleton College Homecoming Schedule with Snake Dance [1]
  • University of Northern Iowa Homecoming Archives [2]
  • Carleton College "Freshman Snake Dance Between Football Games [3]