Word: mike
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When cheer leader E. C. Haggerty '27 mounted the platform to open the rally, 1000 students thronged the room. Mike Denihan was the first speaker, waving his famous pennant, and was followed by L. F. Daley '27, President of the Student Council, Coach Horween, C. D. Coady '27, captain of the team, and Coaches Brader and Carney...
...Coady '27 captain of the team, and L. F. Daley '27, President of the Student Council, will also address the meeting. Mike Denthan, dean of all Crimson rooters, will be on hand with his famous flag, a gift of the late P. D. Haughton '99, which has waved in Crimson triumphs since...
...consecutive years, Michael Denihan, ground-keeper at Soldiers Field and general factotum for the University athletes, has not missed a first team football or baseball game. Ever since the days when Harvard men with moustaches and moleskins touched up their nags to get to practice on time, "Mike" has been on hand to keep the field in trim or to guard the gates against inquisitive strangers. He has watched the greatest of Harvard teams and the most mediocre as they charge past into the mist of years...
...long been traditional for "Mike" to appear at Yale games with a small crimson flag given to him in 1908 by D. D. Haughton '99, after the University had defeated a powerful Yale eleven 4 to 0 on a drop-kick. This flag waved at properties moments has spelt source of confusion to Eli cohorts for the last decade...
Fondly musing on the early days of football Mike said in his inimitable Hibernian dialect, which we dare not attempt to transliterate...