Word: jutbol
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Last week Moscow's big Dynamo Stadium, which looks like a Hotchkiss firstformer's dream of the Yale Bowl, put on a show that made the U.S. collegiate spirit look limp. Occasion: the Soviet Union jutbol (soccer) championship final between Moscow's red-jerseyed Spartak eleven (made up of cooperative workers) and the blue-jerseyed Dynamo team from Tiflis (who represented the Georgian Republic's interior ministry...
...without resorting to athletic scholarships; it is hard to turn down a bid from old Mu Gamma Beta. Actually, the state itself takes wonderful care of boys & girls who look like champs. Shotputter Tatiana Sevryukovo got $1,600 for a record heave. Last winter every member of the Dynamo jutbol team that toured England got a $4,000 bonus on their triumphal return. The ultimate goal of all: the rank of "Master of Sport," which brings a star athlete not only prestige but such rarities as extra rations, a comfortable apartment and, sometimes...
...Latin American sports argot contains many words borrowed from English and Hispanicized. Examples: beisbol, jutbol, tim, picker...
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