Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling and creditable of the season. That, according to press writers, Coach Fisher was striving to build up a defense to hold the Yale scoring to a minimum while Coach Jones was debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale may content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction of a superb halt to Yale's victorious rampage of the last three years; while Mr. George F. Gundolfinger will doubtless settle...
...believe that it was potently pointed out and generally acceded to that while there was no stigma to being a professional, there was to being dishonest. That sport for sport's sake really meant something . . . and that the loss in numbers to the amateur ranks by the defection of those hwo would not compete unless their athletic clubs reimbursed them for lost wages, would be more than overcome by the satisfaction of the amateurs in that they had given up something purely pecuniary for something more profitable. In other words, the replenishing of ones pocketbook was not as important...
...real, though usually unexpressed, reason that most professionals should be put in a class away from the amateurs, is that it is impossible to draw a line between amateurism and professionalism upon any other premise than that of sport for sport's sake on the amateur side, and sport for the living, in whole or in part, which can be had therefrom on the professional side. As of old, the innocent suffer for the guilty and the high-minded and idealistic head of the physical education department of a university, so far as amateur competition is concerned, must suffer...
...lovers of sport for sport's sake, defeat is not always bitter, for it may be tempered with satisfaction over a clean contest nobly fought. Under the same conditions of play, however, victory is doubly sweet...
OBEY-- Is a word never to be taken too literally. It is the sign of a very novice so to misconstrue a ladies Intention as to obey orders pronounced only for form's sake...