Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give cheers that will drown our own or our opponents' signals. This of course is not to be tolerated." In the Yale game the cheering was abundant and enthusiastic. That in itself was an improvement over the condition in years past when our stands have given but half-hearted support to the team. Yet the playing by both sides was frequently held up by the cheering, and it was true that, owing to cheers from the opposing stands, the quarterback of the team which was for the moment playing on the offensive could make his signals understood only by going...
...Sprackling of Brown are possible candidates for this position but neither has shown Miller's consistent brilliancy in running back punts and in the clean handling of the ball. That Sprackling failed to come up to his AllAmerican standard of last year, is largely owing to the poor support given him by his team in the big games and to the fact that he was watched especially by all opposing teams on account of his known ability...
...instead of allowing discouragement to slacken its play, made a splendid brace and outplayed an almost perfect machine in practically every department of the game. Better yet, our cheering and singing was more determined than has ever been given to any Harvard team. We feel confident that the splendid support thus afforded went far toward giving the Harvard eleven a fighting spirit that plainly outshone the well-known Yale grit. For Harvard to outfight Yale in any sport has been rare. To outfight her in football has never happened within the memory of the present College generation. It happened Saturday...
...experience." Never before has the College appreciated the true situation as it does this morning. All of us realize that the fight will be bitter and desperate from the start. Last year's lesson is fresh in the minds of Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores, and all are determined to support to the utmost a team whose progress, though slow, reaches its climax today...
Enthusiasm and spirit ran high at the recent mass meeting and parade. The parade to the field this afternoon will be a second test of the measure of undergraduate support of the football team. It seems hardly necessary, then, to urge all undergraduates to assemble in the Yard at 2.45 o'clock...