Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played two centuries ago to our modern newspaper's description of a game. The account in true journalistic style starts off with a description of the crowded "Stadium" and its setting. Then the team comes running on the field, led by Captain Terence. It seems that even a University band attended this primitive match in the person of one "Ventoso", a piper. Before the game starts "Hobbinol", undoubtedly an ancestor of Eddie Morris, comes on the field and announces the match, the contestants, and the line-ups. Then there follows to all intents and purposes a play by play account...
What positions each man played is not made clear. There probably were no assigned berths. The Soards had six men, as is mentioned above. These were Terence, the Captain, Darby, John, Hugh, Felim, and Daniel. It seems that there was a one-man band present...
...This will be followed at ten minute intervals by six other parlor car trains. The first coach special will leave Boston at 7.25, the second at 7.35, and the last at 8.30. In addition, the "Harvard Limited", on which will travel a large number of students, accompanied by the band and the second team, will leave Boston...
Harvard rooters, horrified, uttered "regular Harvard cheers" at the half-hearted bidding of half-hearted cheer leaders, and sang occasional lines of the songs that were written for Harvard to sing against Yale. The Harvard band never had a chance on earth after the Princeton band got started. Most emphatically it was a shameful Harvard...
Every Harvard man was ashamed of the team's showing, and every Harvard graduate was disgusted with the way the team was supported. Only a comparative handful had been to the Football Mass Meeting, and but few had marched with the band to the Stadium to cheer the beam the Thursday before the biggest home game of the year...