Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday afternoon the 'varsity went to Andover to play the home team and drew a bigger crowd than the annual Andover-Exeter game ever did. The Andover men played pluckily, tackled well and ran immensely, but Harvard was too heavy and skilful for them and they fared badly...
...highly important that as many freshmen as can possibly do so, should accompany their eleven to Exeter tomorrow to encourage them by cheering. There is nothing which spurs on a foot-ball team to do its best more than the sight of a crowd of their own classmates. After the splendid score made against the Grotonian's last Wednesday, there is no chance for the "growlers" to come forward with their dismal croakings predicting the defeat of their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that...
...boats are getting ready; neither will it be pleasant for the men who are waiting on the water. The second suggestion is, give up a place to see the races from. Again turning to our former experience, we remember having had to push and jar our way through a crowd of half-dressed men to a couple of starting gangways and a very small porch, where we were in constant danger of getting knocked into the mud by the stampede following the nose of a barge issuing from the boat house. Now, how is the crowd which will surely assemble...
...close of the literary exercises there will be an intermission till 3 p.m., when a championship foot ball game with Wesleyan will take place on Jarvis Field. New seats will be erected on both sides of the field to accommodate the crowd which will necessarily assemble to see the game...
...other point which excited the spectator's irritability was the apparent lack of system with which the crowd of on-lookers were managed. They entered upon the field and hindered the playing, if not by actually getting in the players way, yet by forming an unconscious barrier to the freedom of their movements. And besides, those few gentlemen who remained on the seats as they should, were entirely prevented from obtaining a view of some of the most interesting plays. A crowd is always selfish and the only way to keep men within bounds is to appoint several leaders...