Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irving Lydecker, Coach of the University lacrosse team for the past two years and former Syracuse star, will be unable to take charge of the sport this spring, it was definitely announced last night by the Athletic Association...
Necessarily correlative, however, with the building up of general participation in sport must be the destruction of that superstructure of stadia, highly paid coaches, mythical intersectional championships, tremendous box office receipts and so on, which have made intercollegiate sport into spectacle, have caused it to be conducted, as Mr. Lowell points out, not for the benefit of the students, but to furnish entertainment to the alumni and the public. Here Mr. Lowell has not carried out his ideas to their logical conclusion. He makes no mention, for instance, of an athletic endowment which would eliminate the pressing need...
...celebrated its fiftieth annual Track and Field meeting on Soldiers Field in Cambridge last May and is the oldest college sport body today. Its members number 40 colleges and are representative of all parts of the country. Under the leadership of Gustavus T. Kirby, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, this association has worked closely with the International Athletic Federation and has become the leader in the United States in the matter of rules of competition. It is not merely an advisory body but an administrative one to which all the larger eastern colleges and such western and middle western institutions...
...ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
...will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...