Word: rooters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to us, as we reflect, that this tendency for rooters mutually to disregard the old standards of sportsmanlike conduct is to a large degree caused by the professionalism which has become so integral a part of American sport. The average undergraduate spectator is not now dependent on intercollegiate athletes for his sport spectacles. A tremendous growth of professional teams of high excellence has colored the college rooter's judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes...