Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Game exciting this weekend in an Ivy League sort of way? Well, yeah. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 was there and alumni came in droves in their jaguars and mink coats to cheer on their boys. Was it Harvard's best season ever? That question is almost nonsensical, for Harvard's history and consequently its football history has not been linear. Instead, Harvard football exists in incomparable moments. When Harvard beat Oregon 7-6 to win the Rose Bowl in 1919, it made history, but history in a different way--when white, male and Protestant were prerequisites to carrying...
...First down, Marshall...and there's some polite golf applause...It wasn't that long ago that these fans would cheer louder for a long incomplete pass...
Whatever the reasons for it, this public backlash against the successful is an intriguing and powerful phenomenon which, regardless of its occasional unfairness, at least makes good copy. We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer for, and who better to wear the black hat than those people or organizations that the public made famous and successful in the first place...
...parents usually just root for one team or the other depending upon which one of us is currently skating," Doug said. "They cheer for us as players, not for one team or the other...
Deciding how to cheer, and whom to cheer for, however, can get a bit tricky...