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Word: rooter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though this will be the Crimson rooter's last glimpse of the band until the fall, their musical appearances will continue through the spring. Sanders Theater will house the next band concert, which is scheduled for April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band to Liven Yale Game in Final Bow | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

Sprawled out in a semi-conscious state on the forty-yard stripe, late in the game, a scarlet warrior provoked the quote of the afternoon from a slightly anxious Crimson rooter, who bellowed, "Bury him where he's lying--we haven't any time to waste...

Author: By Donald M. Blinken, | Title: Psychologists Move in as Rutgers, Princeton Upsets Baffle Observers | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...eager Crimson rooter found himself seated next to a sweet young thing of no mean pulchritude, whom he proceeded to nudge and make growling noises at throughout the first half. Between halves, after she had made the customary trip to that partitioned section under the stadium know to Harvard students of old as "never-never land," she had a short confab with the usher...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Footwork Wins as Knight Fails to Spur on 'Old Gray Mare' | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...soon as the second half started, and with it the activities of the rooter, the aforementioned usher rushed up and threw the rooter out. Personally, as far as I'm concerned, a football game is a football game; and, if I ever find that usher, I'll sue him for the sprained back I received in the fall...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Footwork Wins as Knight Fails to Spur on 'Old Gray Mare' | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Lining up next to him in the tackle slot is Mort Singer, on the other side at center, Bill Sharpe, and at end appears Hugh McCaffery. The only thing of note about these men to a non-Kirkland rooter is that they all played on the pre-war house squad. And they all carry around 190 units of avoirdupois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Holds Edge In House Grid Opener | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

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