Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton game on Saturday the Yale football eleven was given no scrimmage. A half-hour was devoted to signal practice behind closed gates for the first part of the afternoon, and then the gates were thrown open and 2,000 undergraduates led by a band entered the Bowl to cheer the team...
...many wise men as the highest of all the virtues. It is taken for granted by the undergraduate that Harvard is the supreme university in the country, and perhaps, if his maternal love goes so far, the first in the world. All men go to the football games and cheer that team which they have come to feel represents in some measure the spirit of the University. In the winning touchdown they are apt to believe they see the reason why Harvard is supreme...
...football mass meeting will be held in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.15 o'clock. The cheer leaders will be present to rehearse the cheering for the Princeton game and R. M. Cook '17 will lead the singing, for which the Regimental Band will play the songs. The entire team will be present on the stage. W. H. Trumbull '15, acting captain of the 1914 team, and Captain H. H. Dadmun '17 will address the meeting...
...tomorrow afternoon for the first time since the opening of College. Members of the University will assemble in the Yard and, starting at 3.35 o'clock, will march directly to the Stadium behind the Regimental Band. The Stadium will be opened at 4 o'clock and the undergraduates will cheer the team in its last practice before the Princeton game...
This year the team needs more than the passive presence of the undergraduate body. Every man's support at the games is vitally necessary to aid in the team's development for the ultimate victory at New Haven. Enthusiastic, interested cheering may seem of small value to certain lazy individuals, but the men who know and appreciate this form of encouragement are the players. At the crucial moment, when the enemy is threatening our goal line, a ringing cheer, with its instant, psychological effect, often turns defeat into victory...