Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game is in many instances completely lost. It is only after the season is over that he can look back with any pleasure on what he has been through and then the feeling of pleasure is commensurate largely on the degree of the team's success. In almost any sport you can suffer reverses and not feel that the world is coming to an end, but not in football...
...claim to be different from the rest. Nobody cares about the players having fun; it would be well for them to bear that in mind. What we want is that they play for our fun. Football is cock fighting on a grand scale. Whether the birds enjoy the sport they have not yet told us. For these reasons George Owen's point of view will not awaken a general interest beyond an academic...
...every one of us should face the facts. It is true that football is not enjoyed by the majority of players, then face the fact that it is not a sport for them but only for the professional coaches and the spectators. What the 50,000 spectators enjoy as a sport is the fight; they want to see their own particular college win. Probably not two per cent, of the spectators can recognize and appreciate what the plays are and how they are made (barring forward passes and punts...
...every one take up again his 'Tom Brown at Rugby' and reread the account of the game between 'School' and School-House' and then ask himself if he can possibly imagine that account, or anything like it, being written of the present American college game. That game was true sport...
...true that the majority of players do not enjoy the game, it is mere idle chatter to speak of modern college football as a sport. It is sport for the spectators, and it is sport for the professional coach who plays his team against a rival coach. But of these I shall write in another communication. And I will try to answer the more important question which the Bulletin asked in its last number: What is the remedy? --if a remedy is really wanted...