Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire insurance companies, praying for a season of uninterrupted defeats at North western next fall will probably fail to appreciate what a beautiful gesture it teally was. It is great sport to fight firemen. Many a college tradition has been established on less comprehensible foundations. If this kind of celebration is to become a North western custom, the frenzied students ought to be guided by a fine arts professor. Under capable direction they can gradually improve the architectural average in Evanston which, as we remember can stand some intelligent pruning...
...realm of sport the Exposition will provide a series of football and cricket matches, to be played off between teams from the various Dominions. Cried elated Dunedin babbitts: "See New Zuland first...
...Harvard-Yale football game. Just fifty years ago, Harvard and Yale first matched strength and skill against each other on the football field, playing under rules manufactured for the occasion out of the old Rugby game. No one could have foreseen that that game was to initiate the sport, which now sets the whole nation in a frenzy every autumn. Many there are who now believe that the glorification of football has gone too far. But this theoretical question aside for the moment, the fact is that the Harvard-Yale game, in addition to being a classic, has taken...
...Athletic Association has announced that no separate admission could be granted to persons wishing to witness only the soccer match without attending the gridiron contest in the afternoon. Persons holding tickets to the major sport event will, however, be privileged to enter Soldiers Field to witness the soccer clash...
...real, though usually unexpressed, reason that most professionals should be put in a class away from the amateurs, is that it is impossible to draw a line between amateurism and professionalism upon any other premise than that of sport for sport's sake on the amateur side, and sport for the living, in whole or in part, which can be had therefrom on the professional side. As of old, the innocent suffer for the guilty and the high-minded and idealistic head of the physical education department of a university, so far as amateur competition is concerned, must suffer...