Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more undesirable state of affairs, wherein an athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections. At the training table, on the other hand, a healthy crowd of fellows would no more over-talk the sport than in their rooms, and outside of the natural review of the day's work the conversation turns upon anything but sport...
...that some one would devise some system by which Harvard "rooters"--excuse the word--could do something besides rooting! An Oxford man is never a rooter and nothing but a rooter. The rooter is as unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields...
YALE FIELD, NEW HAVEN, Nov. 24--Harvard met Yale this afternoon on Yale Field in the annual gridiron contest between the Crimson and the Blue. Fully an hour before the time set for the game, the crowd of 36,000 people had begun to arrived on the field. The weather was bracing and the field itself in excellent condition, although a stiff west wind was blowing directly, acrose it. The sky was fell of clouds interspersed with chinks of blue through which the sun shone at intervals...
...cheering all the way. After entering Soldiers Fields the men went into the Stadium and enthusiastically cheered the members of the team, Coach Reid, and Trainer Donovan, and sang the football songs while the eleven had a short signal practice. After the squad had left the field, the crowd marched back into the Yard and finally dispersed in front of University Hall...
...election returns, which began to come in about 7.30 o'clock and were announced until 11.45 o'clock, were followed with great interest. The enthusiasm indicated a marked preference for Mr. Guild '81 and Mr. Hughes. The crowd began to collect at 8 o'clock and did not leave until about...