You may have suspected it, and we found proof: "Cheerleaders 'don't care.'"  To date, we've found only a single photo of a cheerleader crying after her team lost.  From Daily Tar Heel, 1965.

Here's a way you can still give a fruitcake and not be reviled: give a fruitcake-themed mystery novel.

From Carleton's 1967 yearbook.

If you have trouble telling football players from footballs, here's why.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

From Science Wonder Quarterly, 1929.

From Nebelspalter, 1891.

From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

From La Lune Rousse, 1877.

"The Sickle of Leo, from which come the Leonids, gleams like a great question-mark in the sky.  The answer— But God knows what the answer to anything is.  Perhaps it is that the stars are very close indeed."
—Charles Fort, New Lands

He's reading Murder for Pleasure.

From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1972 yearbook.

A bold statement -- the mop wig look allowed to cascade and dominate the ensemble.  From Pfeiffer's 1973 yearbook.

From The Film Daily, 1943.

While researching insights into how to know when it's over, we encountered this surprising tidbit from Alton Brown (I'm Just Here For the Food): "You'll know it's over when you reach in with tongs and can easily crush the bones."

From Unknown, 1939.

You've heard the idiom, "Take to the hills!" but here's when to literally do it.  From Sunlight and Stone by George Carl Justin Magg, 1969.

"A man must trust the gods.  There's nobody else."

—Gene Wolfe, Latro in the Mist

"Something's happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear."  (A quotation from "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.)  From American University's 1968 yearbook.