Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system at Harvard immediately changes the makeup of the crowd. Even when given the opportunity Harvard students will not use a home football game as a venue for a date. An Undergraduate Council Bring a Date to the Brown Game" event two years ago--though sponsored by an adamant southern football fan--fell far short of expectations...
...think of Harvard Stadium, with a smattering of dedicated parents, fans, locals, and yes, students, cheering on the Crimson with a great deal of enthusiasm, yet paling in comparison to the more vociferous southern image...
When I attended a 'southern' football game four years ago, the experience stuck in my mind. Was I particularly impressed by this spectacle? I don't know. But the event sparked my interest as a gesture of school spirit...
...games so different? Indeed one major answer lies in the social vehicles of the schools--Greek life in southern universities often dominates the college social atmosphere and football games become ritualistic social functions for fraternities and sororities. The success of their team has little or no effect on this weekly affair...
Perhaps, but when one considers the cultural and urban options available for Boston's 300,000 college students, southern coeds may be forced into the role of the "sports fan," football being one of the few social options on Saturday-- if merely showing up constitutes such a label...