Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to assign any definite reasons or canses for the decline in playing brilliance in college circles," Tilden said, "but I am convinced that it is only a temporary one. Perhaps it is a natural reaction to the intense enthusiasm for the sport in 1920, and the following season which so greatly increased its popularity and the proficiency of the undergraduate players of that time...
...difficult situation" seems to have been justified and more. There was nothing of the synthetic, formal nature present that makes the type of mob psychology usually prevalent in such affairs a doubtful manner of approaching athletic contests whether of great or small importance in the eyes of professional sport followers. Given an opportunity through the advertising potentialities of a rather informally constructed band the College saw fit to encourage certain undergraduates who, representing the University in a dramatic fashion for the next few weeks, find themselves peculiarly handicapped. The overheated hysterical character of a mass meeting that produces hoarseness...
That the college is capable of doing such a thing in such a spirit, that, in a crisis in a spectacular major sport, it can avoid the hysteria that is proverbially expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence...
...this year's tournament should be one of the closest in the history of the sport. It will bring forth keen competition, certainly, for the University, Yale...
...CRIMSON, believing in the above yet decidedly backing the crew rallyy scheduled for this afternoon, may appear to be shifting its ground. Such is not the case, for it sees in today's exhibition not an artificial stimulus to excite the undergraduates to support a sport or testir athletics into a mad frenzy that they may accomplish the phenomenal, but rather it sees in the rally a voicing of support and approval both necessary and encouraging to a Harvard crew in a difficult situation, a crew which besides having to face this situation must in three weeks' time develop into...