Shooting Down Urban Legends

Jose Rizal Composed The Cheers
Urban legend, totally. Jose Rizal was killed on the cusp of the 20th century while the first cheers were used in that fateful basketball game in the late 1920s.

Females Were Included
Nope, as with the history of US cheerleading, cheerleading was a man's sport. Strange, but true. You have to remember that in the late 1890s, women still did not vote.

DLSU Inspired the Cheers
Nope, not true. There was no basketball rivalry to speak of between DLSU and Ateneo in the 1920s. Yet. Ateneo and San Beda actually had a rivalry of sorts in the NCAA during the 50s, at a time when San Beda touted its "Great Difference", Caloy Loyzaga.