Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia Public Ledger: "The clashing exchanges of opinion in the Yale, Harvard, and Princeton student dailies and the frequent protests from faculty members, reveal the growing revolt against the evil influences of a great sport. . . . . It is the friends of football who are concerned about it now. They hope to see it stripped of its unhealthy intensity, its taint of commercialism and again to find in it more of sportsmanship and a little less...
...Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal: "The object of a sport should be to develop physically the greatest possible number of men. Certainly, the modern football game, with its specialization and segregation of the players, does not fill the bill...
...Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune: "It is generally agreed that if or when college football becomes sharply tinctured with professionalism, its doom as in inter-campus sport will have been heralded. . . . The accepted dictum, therefore, is that college football should not be professionalized, directly or indirectly, and that it should not be commercialized...
...applied, football will regain a secure position where the spirit of the game for the game's sake will take the place of the present clamor for great stadiums and greater gate receipts, high-priced players and spectacular programs on the playing field. Football is a great sport and its best friends are those who regard it objectively, probing to find its faults and know them as well as they know its virtues...
...Christian Science Monitor: "Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place in on a national basis...