Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should support the nine in the coming Dartmouth games, as they will prove very important...
...wish to speak thus early in the week of the importance of supporting the nine in the games with Dartmouth tomorrow afternoon and Saturday, in order that every man may realize how much depends on his individual support. The championship contest has now narrowed down to Yale in the lead, and Harvard second, with three games yet to play. It is absolutely necessary, if we propose to wrest the leading place from Yale, that both the games with Dartmouth should be won by our nine. In case Harvard does prove victorious, we have the chance of beating the Yale team...
...never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support to the nine; and whether victory or defeat shall come to us in the next few weeks, we will have done all that is possible to gain the championship squarely and honorably from the college that has held it so long-Yale...
...conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student a practical knowledge of the language he is studying. We speak thus well of the school because it seems to us an institution in every way worthy of the support of college...
There will undoubtedly be a large crowd present to support the team, but the game cannot be won by cheering; no game can be won in this way, except, perhaps, at Yale. The nine must put forth every effort to win, and above all be careful not to become "rattled" at critical moments. The freshmen have the best wishes of the college for that success which the hard, faithful work of the captain and individual members of the team certainly deserve...