Word: grit
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...judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes are in certain measure apart from the rest of the undergraduate body. More than an exhibition of grit and spirit is now expected by the student spectator, who feels that the purchase of a ticket guarantees him a spectacle with the players as performers...
...Baltimore's Mayor Broening went the rounds, congratulated the sitters, told them: "Stamina and grit are essential in the great struggle of life...
...Coolidge denies this. In two paragraphs of his Memorial Day speech at Gettysburg, he cast aside the conclusions of the expert psychologist and criminologist, to avow his faith in the existent American machinery of justice. There might be grit in the works, but the design was good, and the wheels would revolve in silence when chicanery and flummery among judges was cleaned...
...Such prejudices, coupled with the fact that no one has ever yet succeeded in finishing an editorial during the exodus from Soldiers Field, would seem to make all comments, including this one, unnecessary. Nevertheless even extras have editorial columns so the only proper course of action in to grit one's metaphorical teeth, grasp the Cornn firmly in hand and on a Thursday evening offer glittering generalities concerning the results of the coming Saturday's game. All of which is being very, very frank and allowing one's self an unlimited array of alibis in any case...
Stalwart Eddy Decker, Yale's defensive fullback, will bear watching. An ever-present bulwark to be met by Harvard ball-carriers, a veritable basket to throw forward passes into, and a powerful place of interfering material on the offense. Decker has an indomitable grit and spirit that keeps his teammates plugging. Garvey and Hammersley, both skillful runners, fair punters, and game youngsters will ably fill the missing Caldwell's place...