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...really wish I could tell them, ‘Thank you for thanking us, but this is our equivalent to your football. We do it because we love the sport; we don’t really do it because we’re cheering for you,”’ Cardona continues...
...It’s a very dangerous sport,” O’Gara continues. “You get hurt...
Outsiders unfamiliar with cheerleading sometimes criticize the sport for the fact that, at least superficially, it involves cheering for other people rather than proactively accomplishing something for oneself. Yet the Harvard cheerleaders defend and relish their roles...
...Percy Haughton of Harvard; and football legends like William W. “Pudge” Heffelfinger, 1891, of Yale and Milton A. Holt, ’75, of Harvard. It is evident that men who suited up for Crimson or Blue have had a veritable impact on the sport and on history...
...this personal approach that makes the book so readable. While the on-field descriptions are written with the play-by-play style that is customary to sports announcers like Corbett, no real knowledge of football is necessary to genuinely appreciate this survey of the sport and exploration of character. ESPN fans, for whom vocabulary like “inside reverse run” is second nature, may appreciate the book on an additional level...