Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While contending that these opinions were not representative of the student body as a whole, Morin admitted that there might have been more cheers led, but said that the failure of the cheerleaders was due in great part to the apathy of the cheering sections. Saying that "we have to have good cheers, or none at all." Morin declared that in the second half of the Dartmouth game it was almost impossible to raise a decent cheer from the stands...
...Cheer for Winning Team...
Another cheerleader backed Morin on this point. William E. Drucker '43 said that "only when the stands feel the team is on the march will they cheer." Furthermore scattered calls for cheers can not be answered, since the rest of the stands are usually apathetic...
...five cheerleaders, lately reduced from seven are hampered by the conditions necessary for a formal cheer which can only be given when there is a time out or between quarters. It a formal cheer is given at any other time, Drucker said, "the stands are too busy watching the progress of the game to give a really good cheer...
...leading his league last week in both batting (.393) and fielding (1.000). True, he had played only 16 games (he broke his collarbone diving for a shoestring catch early in the season). But in those 16 games, his first in organized baseball, Pete Gray had given fans something to cheer about...