Tarzan yell 1967 and ran for 11 years. This link from the Larry King show describes how she came to do it. Tarzan yell The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply "the victory cry of the bull ape." Although the RKO Picture version of the Tarzan yell was putatively that
Midnight Yell Practice new yells and to practice changes to existing yells. All yell practices are led by the Yell Leaders, a set of five students who are elected to one-year terms by the student body. Yell Practice began in 1913, while A&M was still an all-male military school. Several companies would gather together to "learn heartily the old time pep." The first Midnight Yell was held in 1932. Two freshmen asked the senior Yell Leaders to hold a midnight practice so that students would be motivated for the upcoming football game against archrival Texas Longhorns. The Yell Leaders said that while they