Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isadore Zarakov '27, of the Crimson hockey squad, and J. N. Barbee '28, who has two games yet to play with the University basketball five. The three members of the ice team will be given a week's rest before they are called out for the diamond sport...
Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.) points with pride to Maurice G. ("Red") Robinson. He plays football. He vaults with the pole, having bested all comers at the state track meet. He commands the Wabash basketball team, having been "almost unanimous" choice of sport-writers for All-Western forward last year. Last fortnight he trod in the footsteps of Wabash's president, Dr. G. L. Mackintosh, of Indiana's onetime U. S. senator, A. J. Beveridge, to the rostrum of the Indiana Oratorial Contest, and like them won it. That earned him the right to proceed, as Indiana...
...years ahead of American youth of the same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated in America, such as military service, economic pressure, and extreme standardization of instruction. There is also in America a cult of play and sport that contributes both to health and to social experience, as well as to happiness...
...proverb. "Those on whom the gods smile die young" can never blight athletic fortune, for the smiles of gods of sport are much too transient. Nevertheless, even their passing favor is pleasant. And the University may well seize the moment to observe the recent successes of its teams...
With the recent reorganization of the New England professional baseball league, Fred Lake, assistant coach of the diamond sport last year, who was to have tutored the second nine this spring, was engaged to manage one of the clubs and consequently will not be able to continue his coaching duties at the University...