Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow the undergraduates will march to the field with a band and cheer the team...
...what about the cheering? The writers of this morning's communication cry out against the lack of enthusiasm. It is true that the cheer leaders had to beg for better singing, but we have had only one mass meeting as yet, and good singing is not possible without much practice. The leaders did not have to beg for cheers. It seems to the CRIMSON that everyone was intensely interested in the game, and what cheers there were did Harvard credit. The trouble was, that the leaders did not call for cheers enough...
During the first intermission there was but one cheer; there were none at all just after Carlisle's second score or after the touchback. These were occasions of adversity when the team most needed the loud and hearty support of the stands. Why didn't we give it to them? More than once Captain Fisher has told us that cheering really does make a difference to the players -- especially when they are not veterans and when they are not winning. Surely he must know...
...Princeton, a week ago, we heard the whole cheering section call to the leaders for "more" and "more" cheers. If this were the custom here, certainly more would have been given on Saturday. There is a danger in this practice that the leaders may be induced to give cheers that will drown our own or our opponents' signals. This of course is not to be tolerated. Cheer leaders should be able to decide when not to lead cheers as well as when to lead them. The CRIMSON believes that it would be a good thing if the cheering section should...
...majority of sentiment will be against it. But we have heard and we believe that our team is made of fighters, and real fighters are not at their best unless the odds are against them. There will be not a few Harvard supporters on the Princeton field to cheer the team. But whether there or here in Cambridge, each member of the University has the hope of a successful outcome of today's contest uppermost in his mind...