Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rogers '26 has been appointed song-leader by the Student Council cheer-leading committee, it was announced last night. He will lead the singing this afternoon...
...past, professional football ha thrilled the sporting public about as deeply as the national chess tournament. It is a herald of a new era, therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...
...tremendously dramatic spectacle, not only in the game itself but in all the trappings as well. The Football Giants will have to go the whole length and bring in all the urchins from the corner lots to do the hard vocal labor. Then, with a leather-lunged cheering section of hired talent, and with hired cheer-leaders and a hired band, the excitement-loving, face can lean back in his seat and really enjoy all the spontaneous pagentry that is football...
...matter. The whole question is one of timely importance and deserves all the thought that may be expended upon it from any quarter. The Bulletin is glad to observe that the Harvard undergraduate body of today, through its representative organization, is not confining its thought to the selection of cheer leaders of the choice of class colors. It is showing a laudable interest in things that any college would deem worth-while...
Harvard men have a curious theory that loud and continual repetition of the name of their institution will excite their athletes to such a degree that nothing can withstand them. The Harvard cheer, therefore, consists of braying repetition of the word "Harvard," mixed with a stammer of rah-rahs. Wretched interference and a missed try for goal discredited cheer and theory in favor of a stout team from Holy Cross. Score: Holy Cross 7; Harvard...