Word: losers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heywood Broun of the New York Tribune has entered into another controversy with his contributors. This time he is defending an article in which he ventured to define the American conception of the "sporting spirit". The lively discussion now being carried on has much to say about the good loser--whether the man who takes defeat stoically is a good sport or a hypocrite...
...American youth is a great lover of sports. Contests for athletic supremacy hold his interest and he has cheers for the game loser as well as a deserving loser. Manliness is the chief desideratum and the only thing that wins his admiration. Red blood is not confined by State boundaries...
...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, 1 believe that we have shown the people around this section that we can give any team a fight for its victory...
...Palmer says "We Westerners are not poor losers." His letter, however, is the letter of a poor loser. I am glad to say that I saw nothing in the attitude of the men from the University of Washington, in their brief visit here, that leads me to believe that they are in sympathy with it. They took their defeat manfully, and even if they did not win in their entire stay very admirably represented the University that sent them forth. Mr. Palmer himself should be taught some of the first principles of sportsmanship. Every University has its traditions. An experience...
...shells in higher standing. This new plan is known as a Ladder Tournament, and is expected to add greatly to the interest in rowing. The system, is so arranged that if a sixth crew defeats a fifth crew, the winner becomes the fifth instead of the sixth, and the loser drops a rung on the ladder. This system creates a spirit of teamwork in the daily practice with a definite goal to reach...