Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They won't travel much farther than Yale this year, but that's fine with the 18 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...
...underwrite a cheerleading squad after they got sick of hearing alumni complain that Harvard was the only Ivy League college without cheerleaders. "People would ask me, 'What is this? How can the (athletic) department let this go on?'" Janus remembers. Varsity crew members traditionally lead cheers at the game, but alumni wanted something "more structured," Janus explains. The crew team, like the band, believed they were too cool for structure. They "just plowed around, throwing candy at the crowd,' Janus says...
Hoover says the band and the squad have since made peace. She asked the band for a record of their songs, so they can do a routine to 10,000 Men of Harvard at the Dartmouth game. And at the last game, the band cheered the cheerleaders' performance...
...spectators are not exactly supportive, however, although the cheerleaders attribute their reluctance to follow along with the cheers to lack of practice, not hostility. Janus says, "The first home game crowd didn't know quite what to make of it. You know, the pom-poms...
...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...