Word: rooters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...athletic squads out of New Haven are about as rare as good breakfasteggs out of the Central Kitchen; and so a long-suffering Harvard rooter will, perhaps, be excused for rubbing it in a little, when the Elis appeared as inept as they did yesterday afternoon...
...hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...
...middle of the second period, the game had deteriorated into a name calling exhibition, with the highly amused Harvard fans on one side against a solitary Tufts rooter on the other. When a loose puck flipped off Bob McVey's stick and hit a Tufts player in the face, the Jumbo fan had to be restrained from going out on the ice after the Crimson players...
...Griffith Stadium from his brother Dwight, 66. For the baseball season's opening game, Edgar was the guest of the visiting Baltimore Orioles (he had met Manager Paul Richards while vacationing near the Orioles' Arizona training camp), while Dwight was the first-ball pitcher and No. 1 rooter for the Washington Senators. Before Edgar left Washington, he hit the brotherly differences clear out of the ballpark...
...awkward, plodding style suggested; his offense was a barrage of punches from everywhere. In the 14th round his slashing gloves split open old scar tissue, and the champion's left eye leaked blood. "Rip 'at eye wide open, Gene, rip it open," pleaded an ex-Robinson rooter in the 19th row. Sugar Ray fought back with a tired, sometimes frenzied grace, but he was punched out. No one could quarrel with the judges' unanimous decision that Gene Fullmer was winner of at least eight of the 15 rounds and the new middleweight champion of the world...