Word: pom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson travels to Providence College Wednesday to face the Commencement-ravaged Friars. Harvard has won three of its last four games at P.C.'s Schneider Arena, one of three Division I rinks that features pom-pom girls. Typically, Northeastern and RPI are the other...
Suddenly, fluttering streamers catch your eye. Pom-poms. Outfitted in coordinated crimson and white pleated skirts and sweaters, cheerleaders, honest -to-god cheerleaders, are moving in from the sidelines...
Close your eyes and slip back in time. It's the high school homecoming game. You are 16, the band is grinding out an off-key school fight song, the cheerleaders' pom-poms flutter in the breeze...
...sweaters were really hot the first two games," she laments. "Almost unbearabble." But the athletic department came through where it counted: the pom-poms are waterproof. "I was really impressed," Coutu says. "They bought the best kind, with plastic shakes. They don't wilt in the rain...
...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...