Winter Carnival Keg Jumping
- Informant info
- Junior fraternity member at Dartmouth College
- Type of lore (verbal, material or customary), Genre, Subgenre
- Customary
- Language
- English
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Social / Cultural Context
- Banned tradition of fraternity
- Informant’s comments
- It was a tradition of our fraternity to have a keg jumping contest every winter carnival. Empty kegs would be lined up in the lawn and people would put on ice skates and a jump would be created to see who could jump the farthest. This was banned prior to my arriving at Dartmouth, but is a story that is always shared when joining the fraternity and is a defining story of our fraternity.
- Collector’s comments
- The fraternity is kept anonymous in order to protect the fraternity and the informant.