Word: rowdyisms
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...playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that the gentleman's code applied only to the players. Prolonged "boos" have greeted official decisions; cheers have been heard when a team was penalized. It was evident that these persons...
...spectators will be required to show their Union membership cards or else special tickets signed by the boxing manager. In the interest of pure sport the management requests that any applause which may be forthcoming will not turn into "rowdyism" or "muckerism...
...held at the Union next Friday are well under way. There are to be matches in the six following classes: 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, and 175-pound classes. Twelve matches will be staged, among them being the finals in each class and the semifinals in a few. No rowdyism on the part of the spectators will be permitted...
...been separated from the main body of the College, unmistakable symptoms have arisen of the growth of that spirit which is anathema to the hypothetical "Harvard man." This has at times shown itself in its most objectionable form, which is an inevitable product of such an attitude,--that of rowdyism and muckerism...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...