Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other men. When asked what he was doing he answered, "Getting ready for next year." And next year Harvard beat Yale. On each of those two years, at the close of the football season, the undergraduates gave the eleven a football dinner. At the first dinner they met to cheer an eleven which, though beaten, had done credit to Harvard; at the second to welcome royally a conquering team. At both the good fellowship and enthusiasm were unbounded. The first football dinner did much toward the victory of the next year and, more important even than that, aroused the desired...
...team will leave Harvard Square for Philadelphia at 5 o'clock this afternoon in a special car. As large a crowd as possible should be in the square at that time to cheer...
...unlimited good wishes and appreciation are not enough. The men who attend the game, as well as those who play, have an important part to perform. Their duty is to cheer enthusiastically and continually, whether Harvard is winning or losing. All athletic men who have played in important games, unite in saying that hearty cheering has a wonderfully encouraging and inspiring effect on a team. As a great volume of wildly enthusiastic cheers rolls across the field, the players forget their weariness and aches and bruises, and play with renewed energy and inspiration...
...wonderful work of the Princeton team. The work of the team was no better than it should have been at this se son of the year. There will be a large delegation of students, three hundred or more, who will go up to Cambridge on Saturday and cheer the team...
...game with the graduate eleven tomorrow promises to be one of the most interesting of the season, and one which every college man should attend, not only to show his appreciation of the 'Varsity eleven, but also to cheer for the graduates who have done so much for Harvard in former years. The eleven which will line up against Harvard is undoubtedly the strongest eleven individually that has faced Harvard this fall and if the men were in condition the issue might even be doubtful. The graduate eleven will probably line up as follows: Curtis and Hallowell, ends; Waters...