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Died. Albert Schoensleben (" Al the Milkman"), famous rooter for the Cincinnati National League Baseball Club, after an operation for appendicitis, at Cincinnati. He made a practice of rewarding home-run-hitting Reds with floral pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1923 | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...spite of the miserable undergraduate support in track and baseball, the unenthusiastic rooter is optimistic about the autumn. "Football is more fun to watch, and there is more time to go to the games then"-- But the eleven may have a disappointing early season, and if the College shows no better spirit under trying conditions in the fall than it has recently, the eleven will be stranded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ATROCIOUS INDIFFERENCE" NEXT FALL? | 6/16/1920 | See Source »

...great margin. To date, only about one hundred and fifty applications for tickets at Princeton have been handed in, of which less than forty are in the cheering section. The man outside the cheering section is of no great help; he is an interested spectator, not a rooter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON. | 10/23/1919 | See Source »

...that some one would devise some system by which Harvard "rooters"--excuse the word--could do something besides rooting! An Oxford man is never a rooter and nothing but a rooter. The rooter is as unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields...

Author: By Charles G. Fall ., | Title: Letter on Athletics by C. G. Fall '68 | 12/22/1906 | See Source »

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