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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pirate starter and winner Candelaria fought off a sore back, a sore shoulder, and pulled rib cage muscles to inflict real pain on the Orioles. Helped by two double plays, he held the Birds, who got the leadoff man on base 4 times, in check for six strong innings...
...referee asked if I was ready and I told her no, but she blew the whistle anyway. I should have backed off, but I got flustered and shot," Sailer said...
...squad was born last spring when the undergraduate athletic committee at 60 Bolyston Street decided that women armed with indestructible shakers would do wonders for the sometimes-reserved football crowds. Niki Janus, associate athletic director, says the committee members agreed to 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...
Neither were the football players. When the football players caught wind of the band's charades, "they got very upset," Hoover says. Several of them exchanged harsh words with the band members. John J. Pendergast '82, a football player, suspects the band is jealous. "I think they may feel the cheerleaders are encroaching on their territory," Pendergast speculates...
Hoover recalls the first cheerleader squad-football team encounter. "We were practicing before the UMass game down at the field, and they didn't know who we were. They asked us what we were doing and we told them we were going to be their cheerleaders. They got all excited. They said, 'yeah, all right...