Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public's virtual control" of the game is sinister and perniclous not the game itself. We would protest against the American professors' plan as sincerely as we do against the Harvard program. Both go to the vitals of football to save the sport-crazy public from losing its sense of balance. The only people to worry about in this regard are the men who are in the minority: the players themselves. These can be saved their equilibrium if the college don't deity the Red Granges and if they keep down the hours of practice which deter men from their...
...game should be preserved as it is, but the colleges should not let the public bowl interrupt their several theories for developing good teams without requiring more of the players interest and time than the game justifies. Keep the sport-goer out of the stands if necessary, except for the alumnus and undergraduate; but by no means carve up a great game simply because the public looks upon it as a Golden Calf. Yale News...
...lacrosse, the aboriginal game of the American continent has only recently emerged from the murk of the past to be the leading non-professional spring sport, has been asked many times. The answer is that lacrosse had to be remade, and it took time. It needed feasibility in its mechanics. It could not be too expensive to support. Its dangerous features had to be eliminated, and as a college sport, it had to be made capable of being learned with a considerable degree of expertness in a reasonable length of time, that is, in two or three years...
...students of lacrosse made out of the game, originally a gruesome and dangerous contest, the modern popular sport. The ancient Indian war game was a relic of pure savagery. The players often died from exhaustion, due to frenzied exertion, and the wounds they inflicted upon each other in order to make more keen their interest in the play. The goal posts were miles apart. One side attacked, and the other defended. Aside from this, there was no strategy involved; victory depended purely upon the individual endurance, courage, and stamina of the players...
...been confined to a field about the size of that used in football. The number of men has been limited to 12 on each side, and these men have definite positions, and an exact purpose in every play, just as in football or basketball. The dangerous features of the sport have been eliminated by the use of padding and helmets. Fatal injury to players has been done away with as much as in any other game. In fact, while there are still a good many small injuries, that, from the spectator's standpoint, appear sufficient to send a player...