Word: supported
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospects for a game at New Haven last Saturday were exceedingly unpromising in the morning. The rain of the previous night was continued in the still more exasperating form of a cold drizzle, and many men who had intended to support the nine, changed their minds at the last moment. However, in spite of the dismal outlook, about one hundred and seventy men left Boston on the nine o'clock train and reached New Haven at half-past one. The drizzle had ceased soon after leaving the depot, and there was but little question as to the game's being...
...What sum, in the aggregate, do you yearly contribute for the support of college athletics in all forms? [Omit money paid for tickets to games...
...foreign ground and encountering the well-known Yale enthusiasm today. Yet we want to see them show determination and steadiness from the beginning of the contest till the end, and we hope that the large contingent of Harvard that will go to New Haven with the nine will support the team in every legitimate way. With careful and sharp playing on the part of the nine, and with hearty enthusiasm on the part of the supporters, we think that...
...games with teams of reputation. Friday, the champions of the world for last year play on Jarvis, and it is incumbent on every man who has the athletic interests of the college at heart not only to subscribe liberally beforehand but to be on Jarvis Friday afternoon to support and cheer the team which for three successive years has brought the championship to Harvard-last year without a goal scored by her opponents...
...present is that the nine will be well represented in the game with Yale. We cannot but urge all men who can afford the expense of the trip to go, for the game is to be one of the critical ones of the season, and a strong enthusiastic support encourages a nine to its best work. Our nine certainly deserves all the support that can be given it. Besides this, the expense of the trip will be materially lessened if enough men decide to go. Therefore, since the expense will be comparatively light and the necessary absence from Cambridge short...