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...interviews earlier this Fall. Harrison repeatedly urged that students come out to cheer the team at home games Unfortunately when they have turned out in the past, there has always been a substantial contingent which has come to boo Harrison. If Harvard has a bad season this year, fans similar to those who went to the New York Giants' football games in the middle 1960s to sing "Goodbye Allie" and who went to Philadelphia Eagle games to the late 1960s to chant "Joe Must Go might up to haunt Harrison...
...Pierre doesn't consider himself to be a vocal type who will do a lot of cheer leading to psyche a team up. "I'm definitely not a rah-rah type, although a little of that is good for a team," he said. "Example is the best way to be a captain...
...zonah! Ben zonah!" The chant at the soccer match between Tel Aviv Hapoel and Jerusalem Hapoel was not a cheer for the home team but an angry denunciation of the referees. Though the epithet means "Son of a whore!" in Hebrew, the referees were more relieved than offended; after all, the abuse was merely verbal...
...government education program for fans, game tickets are now printed with standard admonitions: "Don't cause your team to be punished. Do everything you can to calm people around you." Israeli TV and radio will soon carry programs on sportsmanship, and schoolchildren will be instructed to cheer rather than boo an outstanding play by an opposing team. Acknowledging that the education may not be 100% effective, the Football Association also plans to erect security fences between the fields and the stands. For all the preventive measures, however, many soccer officials feel that it will take more than one season...