Cheerleading was reborn at Harvard two years ago. With a little help from the athletic department. 14 women and four men agreed to attempt to resurrect an art form that had died amidst the politics and protest of the late sixties.
Well-scrubbed, pep-filled, and pom-pommed, the cheerleading unit debuted early in the football season. They cried:
Crimson, ready, fight
Go Crimson, fight
We've got spirit, we've got might
Go Crimson, fight
The Harvard Band survived the sixties more easily: in the last few years, in fact, they've assumed the role of cantankerous artistic arbiter at Harvard Stadium. The Band looks at sports the way a lot of people here do; they are out to have fun, down a little booze, and sit in the sun. They lack pep.
So when the cheerleaders began their routines, the Band came up with its own set of cheers. A sampler:
Tear his arm off
Tear his leg off
We love football
Beat him, beat him
Buck him, buck him
C'mon Harvard
Knock him down and really
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