Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shifts in the cheer-leading squad will make it possible for the candidates remaining in the competition to lead the cheering in both University and Freshman games today. One shift will cover the first and fourth quarters of the Holy Cross game, and will officiate at the 1929-Exeter combat during the two middle periods, while they are replaced at the University stands by the other ball of the squad...
This enthusiasm may have been natural exuberance at the rare spectacle of a Harvard score board discarding the simple arithmetic of football games and adopting the higher mathematics of thermometers, stock tickers, speedometers, and voting machines. But its thunderous expression, in cheer after lusty cheer, lasting throughout the game, was certainly due to the capable direction of the four energetic squads of cheer leaders selected on a competitive basis for the first time in Harvard's athletic history. Seldom have Harvard cheer leaders shown such energy, such ability, or such scrupulous attention to the long-neglected courtesies of the football...
...announced last spring, now gladly withdraws its objections in the light of last Saturday's performance. Save for a few offensive exhortations to "Talk it up!" or, still more odious, to "Pep it up!" which will, it is to be hoped, be omitted hereafter, the new order of cheer leaders seemed fully as dignified, and far more capable than the more casual leaders of the past...
...time of flux at Soldiers Field. Changes have been made in the football museum and in the methods of cheer leading. And it does not seem that these changes have been made for the worse...
...Carroll '26, Chairman of the committee conducting the competition for cheer leaders, will present a statement on the progress of the competition now well under...