Word: ballyhooer
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...season has become history. Educators, seeking publicity, demand that athletic overemphasis be stopped and are quoted in headlines deriding sport commercialism, but the following autumn are again among those clamoring for seats on the fifty-yard line. This present agitation can well be put into this same category of ballyhoo reforms. College athletics are at present in a healthy condition and can hardly benefit by radical suggestions...
...whereas in any sound system of education the primary object of athletics must be the health, the pleasure and the discipline of the athlete himself. In that distinction lies the clue to the whole problem which now perplexes all those who discuss the manifest evils of commercialism, overemphasis, professionalism, ballyhoo and vulgarity in intercollegiate athletics...
...athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...
...papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them all alike. Don't let them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend...
...scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...