Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically the only contribution which undergraduates have given to the modern curriculum of education is athletics", declared W. J. Bingham '16, former University track captain, in a speech made at a football dinner at Lawrence High School yesterday, as he launched into what he termed "the most popular sport of early winter, athletic reform...
...might perhaps be enough to tell you that the Club unanimously passed a resolution endorsing your attitude towards football and your efforts, as evidenced in this program, toward bringing the game back to where it can again be regarded as a sport. But I believe that it is just as well to add that in the informal discussion which followed the passage of the resolution, many members expressed the hope that the program would succeed. It was generally conceded that this move on your part was constructive, ambitious, and courageous, and showed that the CRIMSON is no longer merely...
...professionalizing" of football is not a new thing, but this fall has found such an increased activity that the question of its future is a topic of considerable moment. No amateur sport has created so much discussion upon its entrance into the professional field as American football. Started only about fifty years ago, the sport has grown from one which attracted only a few undergraduates, both as players and spectators, to one which brings out from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five candidates for the varsity team in the biggest colleges of America, and spectators in such numbers that...
...seen. Some claim that it will injure its standing, while others maintain that it will be an aid to keeping interest up. 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 it on a rational basis. The subject is receiving considerable attention at Harvard University, and the daily paper of that college has even suggested that the professional game will do much to accomplish this...
...much pleased to see your paper trying to start something in the way of reform of football. I trust you will continue your efforts to abolish football as a "business," and to bring it back as a "sport...