Word: coutu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male cheerleaders don't get to dance. While the "girls" do the dance routines, the "men stand behind the girls and scream the cheers" through megaphones, Coutu says. At the end of a routine, the men get down on all fours to form the bottom of "the mount...
...harassed the men for cheering. "The guys aren't given a hard time," Coutu says, adding, "Besides, they are very male-looking males." They agreed the men should not participate in the routine because "the arm movements look too feminine," Hoover thinks. But she promises more action for the men in the games ahead when the squad plans to have the men "picking us up and throwing us around." Hoover adds, "It will be more exciting for them...
...alumni find rooting so reprehensible. Some of the middle-aged graduates always greet Coutu after a game with a pat on the back. "They tell us how sweet we look," she says. She expects once they accept the cheerleaders' presence, the spectators will start cheering with them. Football player Pendergast hopes so too, for the cheerleaders sake. Right now, "the people in the stands do more laughing at them than cheering. Or at least that's what I hear on the bench." Pendergast believes the crowd's attitude bodes ill for the squad's future. "If they...
...games though, the team is less demonstrative. Hoover says they smile and clap, but don't usually say anything to the cheerleaders. Coutu suspects it is because "they are all wrapped up in the game." But their oblivion doesn't distress her. She knows that the team is inwardly grateful. "the general reaction is like, 'wow, they really care about...
...cheerleaders get few opportunities to "mingle with the football crowd," as one cheerleader put it. Coutu doubts this will change even on an away game weekend. "I'm sure when we go away, we'll be pretty much segregated. They want the guys to keep their minds on the game." She doesn't feel deprived. "I'm not there to meet the football team, I could go to guts to do that." Even after the games, the men remain elusive. "After the game they just rush into the locker room and change," Butler says...