Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Captain Trumbull and the cheer leaders, and the CRIMSON as well, seem not to consider a certain reason which may account for the present undergraduate lack of football enthusiasm. It is not that the student body thinks Princeton will be easily defeated. But may it not be that a whole-hearted interest in the team has subsided because of too many one-sided early-season games...
...Brown, Princeton and Yale, the University team had real combats with Cornell or Machigan, Dartmouth or Penn State, Washington and Jefferson or Carlisle--there were always no less than five games out of nine that were close games and profitable tests. Naturally, the stu- dents then were inspired to cheer and sing, to swarm to mass meetings...
This meeting will be followed up by a parade to the Stadium Thursday to cheer the final practice before the eleven leaves for the Tiger's stronghold. The University Band will lead the procession, and it is hoped that every undergraduate who can will march behind it to give the team a strong send...
...meeting, what there was of it, could not have been better. The cheer and song leaders lifted those present off their feet in their enthusiasm. But the presence of those men who are so busy with their own affairs is sorely needed. Next Thursday every man in Harvard College must, if necessary, be forced to go to the Union...
There has been a very noticeable lack of spirit and co-operation in the cheering so far this year, but the cheer leaders expect to get the men working together tonight. The second meeting of this year will come the night before the team leaves for Princeton, and this will be the last chance to practice the cheers and songs before then...