Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football, like business, is seldom pursued for its own sake. As a prominent halfback once said: "I don't run back punts for my health." It is not for amusement that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair...
...student who has, while enrolled in another university or college, taken part in competitive athletics as a member of his university, college, or class team or crew, while playing against opponents not members of that institution, shall be in ineligible to represent Harvard, Yale, or Princeton in any sport in which he so represented his former university or college...
...column in the Traveler is one of the most widely read and well known of all newspaper columns. In last Sunday's issue he wrote to the effect that "football must be a wonderful sport if Harvard can make $250,000 on that team...
...their charges without violating the eligibility rules. More advanced ground is taken theoretically in the matter of amateur standing in this report. It doubts whether a student earning his way through college should be forbidden to accept "a job in the Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets a job in a Summer hotel and plays on the hotel ball nine" and the man who is engaged as a tutor and plays with his pupils. "Both," it is submitted...
...When the present outdoor sports are over, and the indoor schedule starts, Freshmen will be allowed to elect hiking as a form of exercise. This sport will be supervised, and we shall try to arrange trips that are interesting to everyone...