Word: effective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...think that as an expression of the support of the college, cheering has a decidedly beneficial effect upon the players. Cheering itself is not noticed perhaps, so very much in a game, but under present conditions the lack of it, on the part of either team's supporters, would be decidedly depressing to that team. In fact it would be a distinct handicap to a Harvard team to abandon cheering, unless the opposing team could also be convinced to give it up. Moreover, it does not seem to me to matter much, if there is some artificiality in the present...
...point of view I have never much believed in the value of organized cheering. In the first place, any player knows that he never hears any cheering except when it interferes with his hearing something else that he wants to hear. Whether or not it has a subconscious inspiring effect is perhaps difficult to say, but I do not think that any team with the proper spirit and properly trained would ever care as to how the spectators were treating them while they were on the field. Before the contest begins and during the time of preparation it is perhaps...
...effect upon the rest of the University...
...very fact that the cheering is organized, has a most salutary effect upon the team about to take part in a great contest. The fact that classmates and collegemates are willing to spend time and energy in rehearsing cheers and songs, fills each member of the team with an indomitable spirit, inspired by the feeling that the University is backing him with its interest, its confidence, and its enthusiasm. When the game begins, the player, if he is playing as he should, is entirely unconscious of even the loudest cheers, except at intervals, perhaps, as between the halves or between...
...effect upon the University of organized cheering is of even greater moment than its effect upon the team. From the familiar natural law of atrophy, we know that enthusiasm unexpressed, soon ceases to exist. On the other hand, rational and intelligent expression of deep feelings of enthusiasm stimulates our loyalty to class and to college. It fosters that intangible something, known as college spirit,--an element of student life which is absolutely essential to the well being of the University