Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harassed the men for cheering. "The guys aren't given a hard time," Coutu says, adding, "Besides, they are very male-looking males." They agreed the men should not participate in the routine because "the arm movements look too feminine," Hoover thinks. But she promises more action for the men in the games ahead when the squad plans to have the men "picking us up and throwing us around." Hoover adds, "It will be more exciting for them...
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 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...
...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...
...games though, the team is less demonstrative. Hoover says they smile and clap, but don't usually say anything to the cheerleaders. Coutu suspects it is because "they are all wrapped up in the game." But their oblivion doesn't distress her. She knows that the team is inwardly grateful. "the general reaction is like, 'wow, they really care about...