Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of rest, it will be in excellent condition for the Virginia game tomorrow. The Southerners, however, have a reputation for invading the North with a team, which, besides having a thorough knowledge of football, is a fast, hard-tackling and fighting aggregation and is known for its clean, sportsmanlike game. Whether Coach Fisher will send a team of substitutes against them, in order to save his men for the Princeton and Yale games, is open to conjecture...
...will bring to Cambridge a group of men to whom sportsmanship is second nature; it will cement the good felling between Harvard and the South. In other words, it will be like last Saturday's battle in the Stadium, when the gold and white of Centre flashed so clean and brilliant...
...proud of my squad," exclaimed Coach Moran, smiling in spite of his disappointment. "I am proud of them because Mr. Brickley and Coach Fisher said that they played as clean football as has been seen in this Stadium for many years. They are showing the stuff they are made of by the way they are taking this defeat after they had become so used to winning after almost four years of continuous victories. It is easy to be a good winner but it is hard to be a good loser, especially when possibly your whole reputation is at stake. However...
Football has always been a gentleman's game, probably because its very physical nature brings out the best in men. Last Saturday the crowds applauded Boynton not only because his playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that...
...certainly not over-confident. After the game, I believe that both teams will feel that they have come up against real opposition, and that Harvard will feel justified for having included us on her schedule. We expect to play a hard, clean, game of football, and if the Crimson wins we will be glad to concede that they are a better team...