Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face known to all followers of U.S. sport peered over a fence in Lexington, Ky., with a certain wistfulness apparent in the droop of the long-veined nose, the expression of the black-circled eyes. It is true that the owner* of this countenance has for some time been leading a life of considerable luxury, but it was in no way responsible for the melancholy that saddened his visage. His regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless...
Gentleman's Sport...
...definite records are available showing where and to what extent lacrosse was played in the United States prior to 1880 when the University had its first team. In the next year Columbia, New York University and Princeton took up the sport and carried it on for a number of years. Cornell, Pennsylvania and later Yale organized lacrosse teams and a schedule of about six or seven games was played each year...
During recent years, so great was the number of colleges taking up the sport that it was deemed advisable to form two lacrosse leagues, one called the northern division and the other the southern. The University, being a member of the northern division from the first, has won many of the cups which were awarded annually to the winners in the respective leagues. Immediately prior to the war several such trophies were won and are now in possession of the University and on exhibition in the trophy cabinets in the Union...
This year Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Springfield Training, St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Canisus, St. Stephens, Columbia, Virginia, Georgia Tech, and a number of various club teams have either revived the sport or started it for the first time