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1. Trying to figure out where the “U-S-A” chant comes from. One of the earliest references that pops up is in Czechoslovakia in 1969, where 5,000 students defiantly chanted it at riot police. 
2. Ironically, then, it seems to have been popularized in the United States during our hockey team’s miraculous 1980 run, during our match against …. Czechoslovakia.
3. But as this @p_emory thread points out, versions of the chant go back a long, long way:
