The “Rammer Jammer” cheer is iconic to University of Alabama fans, but where did it come from?
The words “rammer jammer” were derived from the name of a defunct student magazine that was published starting in the 1920s.
Former students mentioned a shortened version of the chant had been around since at least the 1960s. According to Bill Keller, Class of 1967, students at that time were shouting something along the lines of “Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, Give ’em hell Alabama!”
According to a 2003 article in The Tuscaloosa News, the chant was created by cheerleaders on a bus ride back from the Mississippi State game in about 1982, the last year Bear Bryant coached.
Kathleen Cramer, who was quoted in the 2003 article and cheerleading sponsor at the time, said the cadence for the chant was based on the “Hotty Toddy” cheer at Ole Miss.
In the late 1980s and the mid-1990s, the university banned the cheer because of its taunting nature and inclusion of the word “hell.”
When the issue was put to students for a vote at Homecoming 2005,
98 percent voted to keep the cheer.
Today Rammer Jammer is also the name of a local beer brewer and title of at 2004 book about sports fanatics “Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania.”
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