Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard sought a coach who was in accord with the best traditions of University football and who was no less in touch with the most recent development of the sport elsewhere. It wanted also an able strategist, a teacher of a sound game, but most of all it wanted a leader of the same high type that has invariably been in command of football at Harvard. All these desiderata the new appointment satisfies to a nicety...
...Andover, where he played hockey and baseball for two years, captaining the sextet in his Senior year. As a Freshman in the University Ellison was injured during the football season and was able to play only in the last few hockey games. He won his numerals in a third sport during the baseball season. In his Sophomore year he won his letter in both hockey and baseball, and this year was again at one of the defense positions on the hockey team. Although unable to play in the early season games, he returned for the Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale series...
...with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning. There is an absolute lack of sport enthusiasm and the old patriotism is regarded by the limited classes which still hold the feeling as a necessary or rather unnecessary evil...
...fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
...York Herald Tribune considers the use to which the increased revenue will be put as "justification for the step." It goes on to say: "The greater the number of undergraduates competing in some form of athletic endeavor the better it will be for the college and for amateur sport in general. What to some may seem an intensification of the spirit of commercialism may possibly bring quite different results...