Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Criticism for the Harvard team I have none. Coach Horween has both the opportunity and the ability to give it. I necessary and I have neither. My quarrel is with the other part of the combination which is necessary for a successful team: the student body and the cheering section...
Last Saturday afternoon, armed with my "H. A. A.", I joined the crowd in what was labelled the cheering section. True, it had the pre-whistle appearance of one: row upon row of potential cheerers, five energetic cheerleaders and a Band which has no equal in the college world. The cheering section of my Alma Mater never numbered over 499 effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener...
...been said that a team on the field heeds not nor even hears the efforts of a cheering section. It may be so, but, lacking first-hand corroboration, I do not believe it. Ask any man of the Middle-bury team which played in the Stadium four years ago what that little group of howling manaics on the East side of the Horseshoe meant to him; ask the Harvard team of Saturday how much inspiration they drew from those speechless ranks on the West side...
...another question to the application card for seats at football games, namely: Do you intend to be drunk at this game? It would then be possible to have a Guzzler's Section and the common run of spectators could be spared from synthetic fumes and maudlin comments...
Such was one eyewitness' description of what happened one noon last week when a low-pressure area formed in the sultry atmosphere over eastern Missouri, creating a Cave of the Winds, and loosing upon a residential section of St. Louis its worst tornado since...