Title: “Juice Check”

General Information about Item:

• Genre and Sub Genre
  • Customary Folklore: Custom

• Language: English

• United States of America

Informant Data:

Name: Joshua Davis

• Dartmouth Class of 2018
• Residence: Hanover, New Hampshire (During the school year) Los Angeles, California (during off-terms)
• Age: 20 years
• Jersey Number: 18
• Years of playing experience: 3rd year (Junior)

Contextual Data:

• Anyone watching a football game will certainly observe customs and rituals that every player on the team performs before and during games. These customs and rituals not only serve as a way for team building and maintaining team synergy, but also individually affect players positively.

Item:

Charms – “Juice Check”

• During certain timeouts during the game, the defense comes together and works towards building up the intensity. Everyone repeats after the person yelling out “juice” and the level of noise is increased and maintained as the chant goes on. This custom happens at every game and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Interview with Joshua Davis

Transcript of Associated File:

“As for team wise for Dartmouth College, we have certain periods during practice where we come together as a defense and we do this thing called a juice check. A juice check is pretty much building up the intensity [and seeing] how much intensity you have. We just come together and repeat after the person that’s yelling out juice so it’s a back and forth, just riling each other up”

Collector’s Comments: 

Joshua explains an important custom that occurs during games that helps improve everyone’s focus. This specific ritual explains the reasoning behind a frequent custom and it is clear that this ensures unity and improves both individual and team performance.

Collector’s Name:

Kang Min Daniel Lee

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Folklore
• Chant
• Football
• Dartmouth