Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picking an All-American team of cheer leaders for 1916, the expert is confronted with a wealth of material. There are some 50 colleges and Pittsburg University, all playing football on a large scale, and each one putting forward from one to four cheer leaders to compete for the honor of being selected by this department...
Down in the Yale Bowl this afternoon Captain Dadmun and his men will struggle to wrest victory from the sullen bulldog, while in the stands the cohorts of the Crimson will cheer their efforts. At home in Cambridge supporters no less loyal will fervently beseech the gods for a Harvard victory. The sun has set in vivid crimson now for four successive years. May it be long before the cold blue shadows obscure our vision of victory...
...power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands. The long roll of the Harvard cheer must convince the team that behind it is a cheering section determined to defeat Yale...
...Student Night" last evening. The big tabernacle was crowded to capacity and fully 10,000 were turned away at the most notable service so far of the "Billy" Sunday campaign. Delegations from every educational institution in and nearby Boston were present. After the opening hymn each delegation gave its cheer. The singing by the huge choir, particular the "echo-singing" across the tabernacle, worked up the spirit of the meeting...
...there should be more to this invitation than merely seeing to it that the sailors have seats. They should be made welcome by all Harvard men with a lusty Harvard cheer, and receive the right hand of fellowship. These same lads whom you will see attending your football game will probably be among the first to give their lives for their country, should the cause ever come. They are spending four arduous years of their life in preparing for the event, while the undergraduate is enjoying four years of the best the land can give him. Is it not well...