Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have been thus innocently deluded by the wiles of sport correspondents now herald with enthusiasm the opening of the hockey season tonight. The publication of starting lineups has already caused a stir; last minute changes may yet augment the intensity of the situation, Because they look for competent criticism of the very subjects which are on the tips of their tongues, athletic enthusiasts again find in the newspapers renewed satisfaction. Although the headlines are not as incongruously conspicuous as those of three weeks ago the articles are none the less convincing in the dearth of copy sextet supplants...
...Harvard Athletic Committee also conferred the minor sport "H" upon the University cross country team for the third consecutive year. The minor "H" was awarded to Captain J.L. Reid '29 and to Leslie Flaksman '29, while cross country insignia was awarded to R.C. Aldrich '31, R.G. Hodges '31, Guy Murchie '29, A.G. Thacher '29, and Manager R.E. Dame...
...other matters of import were released along with the crew schedule, among them being the awarding of the football letters and numerals for the past season, the approving of managerial appointments and the elections of football and soccer captains for the coming year, and the issuing of the minor sport schedules for the winter season...
Harvard, standing always in the nor-east wind of New England, has been a hockey college since the inauguration of the sport in the circles of intercollegiate athletics. Thirty years ago a group of Harvard students, with F. S. Elliot of the Law School and J. W. Dunlop '97 at their head, got out in the icy afternoons and froze their toes and their noses and their ears so that Harvard's hockey team today could work out in the finest indoor ice arena in New England...
...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...