Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Bulletin publishes this week two communications and an editorial upon organized cheering, to the effect that cheering intended to rattle or otherwise impede the players of the opposing team is unsportsmanlike and should be stopped. We cannot too heartily agree. Throughout the football season the CRIMSON urged upon the undergraduates the value of cheering as an inspiration to the team, but we said at the outset that there were certain risks connected with it. On November 13 in an editorial we said, "There is a danger ... that the cheer leaders will be induced to give cheers that will drown...
...believe firmly in the value of organized cheering to the players. Captain Fisher himself emphasized this very point. In as far as our stands were able to give this support heartily and thoroughly this year our cheering was an improvement on all that has gone before. But success from this point of view is only a part of the real measure of success of cheering. At present we are able to cheer so as to inspire our own men. Henceforward let all our efforts be directed to see that our cheers are not obstructing our opponents. This might make...
...give the grand old cheer, boys...
...arrive. At 1.30 the Harvard bands started and the singing was followed by great applause. With the Harvard band playing "Up the Street," F. R. Hancock '12 stepped out and started the Harvard sections singing "Harvardiana." The Yale stands replied with "Yale will Fight Till the End." Harvard cheered Yale and the latter returned the courtesy. At 1.52 Captain Fisher trots on the field at the head of the Harvard squad. The condition of the Field is excellent considering last night's hard rain. The Harvard stands cheer madly for Fisher and the squad Felton and Blackall get off some...
This determination must be evident on the Field if the team is to use the one quality which it has above all else, namely, fighting spirit. To start that spirit, the players must hear the long roll of the Harvard cheer and feel that there is a real power back of it. If we can give them this feeling, there need be less concern as to the result. Let us make 1911 memorable for cheering such as Soldiers Field has never heard and also for the first football victory over Yale that the Stadium has ever seen...