Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last night, at a small informal dinner, Dr. Huey outlined his plans for the fall. Speaking through an interpreter, he stated that although he had yet to see a football game, he believed he understood the underlying principles of American sport. He cited his unfortunate experience in Agua Caliente, Mexico, where he lost in one brief half hour at the gaming tables the profits of the Harvard CRIMSON for the next five years...
...between the University and the class teams and at the same time would open a new field of athletic competition in football. Crew has already blazed the trail in special weight classes and there is no reason why this idea which has proved so successful in the spring sport should not also be applied to football...
...reason for this is fairly obvious to any one who stops to consider the function which pro tennis performs and compare it with the function of say boxing or baseball. The last two named serve only one purpose as professional sports and that is to amuse the spectator. Pro tennis on the other hand like pro golf has for its primary purpose the instruction of those who desire to learn the game so that they can play it themselves. Just why the stigma commonly associated with professionalism should attach to such an unquestionably worthy end is a mystery, but fortunately...
Although the oriental sage hopes his new followers will not risk all their money so early in the season on his predictions for Saturday's games, like the good sport that he is, he submitted the following scores for the day's gridiron battles to newspaper correspondents here today: Boston College 27 Catholic U. 6 Dartmouth 39 Norwich 0 Holy Cross 32 St. John's 0 Brown 20 Springfield 0 West Point 33 Boston U. 7 New Hampshire 13 Colby 0 Michigan 27 Mt. Union 0 Penn 39 F. & M 0 Columbia 27 Middlebury 0 Cornell 21 Clarkeson...
...well as his mind, must undergo certain treatments at the same time. He cannot matriculate until he has shown a certificate of vaccination. He cannot graduate until he has demonstrated his ability to swim. He must have fulfilled his physical-training requirements by taking part in an approved sport for at least three hours a week, by taking special corrective exercises if his posture is deficient, and by attending a series of lectures on hygiene...