Word: muckerism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cries of some small urchins perched in the trees directly back of the seats at the entrance of Jarvis. As these seats are often occupied by ladies, and will be so today at the games, care should be taken that no such opportunity be given the Cambridge mucker to voice his sentiments. It is sufficient annoyance when his hoots and cries are confined to the outside of the fence, but when his comments on the game are shouted forth almost directly over one's head, it is simply unbearable. Perhaps no better argument could be brought forward for a fence...
...quarter or a half-dollar, but at every game there are many outside who could well afford the price of admission, and it is much to their discredit that they choose to show such an example of meanness. No words can be too strong to denounce such conduct. The "mucker" element is a disgrace to our games. They are, to be sure, strong Harvard partisans; but they are insulting to the visiting teams, and a good high fence would serve a very useful purpose in keeping them out. It seems to me very unjust for the faculty to crowd...
...those who are not good at judging the position of the ball, and besides there are all the old styles. We will, in fact, have no complaint to make in regard to rackets for the coming year. Our sole grievance is the wayward ways of the wicked little "mucker...
...Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come to it if you ever expect to beat us." But at all events, let us not be driven out of foot-ball by the illegal practises of a single college...
...last year, I should like to advocate a measure which I am sure will meet with the approbation of most of the fair-minded men of the college, and which deserves the attention of every person who believes in keeping the college sports free from all manifestation of the "mucker" spirit. I refer to the advisability of giving up our annual Yale game of foot-ball. I believe that after the exhibition given us by Yale last Saturday, that every Harvard man who wishes to keep up the tone of college athletics, will approve of any action taken...