Taking a Knee

Title: Taking a knee

General Information about Item:

  • Genre and Sub Genre
    • Customary Folklore: custom
  • Language: English
  • United States of America

Informant Data:

  • Kyran McKinney-Crudden
    • Age: 20
    • Junior
    • Hometown: Glastonbury, Connecticut
    • Defensive Back #3

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context
    • Before practices the defence of the team will take a knee at center field.
    • Before games all players will take a knee in the opposite end zone and also take a knee.
  • Cultural Context
    • This custom is also known among players and staff. They all understand that this custom will happen before every practice and game.  Different players may either pray, think about what they are going to do well that time out on the field, or just tie their shoes.
    • They basically just appreciate what they have with Dartmouth Football.
    • Unclear to Kyran of when this custom started

Item:

Custom: Taking a knee

  • The items involved are the “D” at center field and the opposite end zone.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JV0yUpSbU

Transcript of Associated File:

Uh… So before every practice we run on to the center of the field where the giant block D is and everyone just takes a knee there. Some people pray, some people you know ties their shoes, just get ready for practice. Uh… basically the important thing is you know we just take a second to appreciate what we have, uh… our teammates, our coaches, uh… just basically the family of Dartmouth football and how we are thankful for you know being able to do what we can do every day.

Collector’s Name:

Hailey Noronha

Tags/Keywords:

Customary Folklore, Football, Dartmouth

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