Word: coutu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't, and two weeks later the first ever Harvard football cheerleading squad is still alive and kicking with a $500 budget, a set of megaphones and a year's supply of bobby socks to its name. And they intend to hold their own, Teresa Coutu '81 announces, proud that she is part of the "start of a tradition, a Harvard tradition...
...they do it? Tricia G. Butler '80 does it because "it's one good way of keeping my shape." Toni M. Hoover '81 says she "always wanted to in high school" but couldn't because she marched in the band. Coutu says she's been doing it for "years and years," but thought "it might be even better here, since, you know, this is Harvard." Besides, she throws in, "you travel...
...cheerleaders. Even though the athletic department will only pay for one away game jaunt, they did find the funds to costume the squad in "Harvard major letter sweaters" (black sweaters with crimson and white official H's) and white skirts and crimson pleats. "It's a real traditional outfit," Coutu says enthusiastically, although she regrets that the athletic department could not find money to provide the squad with two outfits: one cool, one "wintry...
...sweaters were really hot the first two games," she laments. "Almost unbearabble." But the athletic department came through where it counted: the pom-poms are waterproof. "I was really impressed," Coutu says. "They bought the best kind, with plastic shakes. They don't wilt in the rain...