Word: squads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though some of the most versatile cheerleaders at Southern colleges (notably Alabama and Tennessee) are dimple-kneed coeds, girls are not eligible for the All-America cheering squad. "Every year there is a campaign to take them in, but every year we keep them out," scowls President Ritter...
...footballers wondered whether they would be picked for one of the hundreds of All-America teams (chosen by sportswriters, Greek restaurants, department stores, cinema producers), the cream of college cheerleaders had the same worry: whether they would be picked for this year's All-America cheering squad, to be announced Christmas week...
...cheerleaders' All-America seven (because that is the size of the average college squad) is chosen each year by Gamma Sigma, national college cheerleaders' fraternity, with the aid of sportswriters and sportcasters. Gamma Sigma has no college chapters, no fraternity house, no key. Its 900-odd members are divided into two chapters: Alpha (for All-Americans) and Rho (for also-rans). To become an Alpha and wear the All-America insignia (a shield with two crossed megaphones) is as great a distinction among cheerleaders as getting a Phi Beta Kappa key is to a bookworm...
...squad has been cut down to fifteen, and unfortunately there is no place to give seasoning to the men who had to be cut. There is no Jayvee team, and with its abolition last spring went its coach, Johnny Wood. The sacrifice in player talent has not been important but Fesler has his hands full with his enlarged Varsity squad every afternoon...
Thomas, captain and outstanding wrestler of the Yardlings last winter, will be fighting for the Crimson at 145. One of the best intra-squad matches of the year is going to be between Thomas and Bruce Richardson, last year's incumbent in the 145-pound position, but Richardson has been laid up this week with a sprained shoulder...