Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England championship wrestling team of last year, the first Harvard group of grapplers ever to defeat Yale in the history of the sport in the University, has this year dwindled to only three men. These last year's lettermen, Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, J. H. Burns '30, and Nathanfel Warner '30, will form a nucleus around which the rest of the 1928-29 team will be moulded...
...members of the conference will gather at Cedar Hill on Saturday afternoon, December 9. After a time spent in informal sport, the first meeting will be called to order by Winslow Carlton '29, president of the Phillips Brooks House and chairman of the conference, who will propose the two main questions for discussion...
...deal of deploring and viewing with alarm concerning the decadence of the Yale spirit. Mr. T. A. D. Jones chairman of the Yale Football Committee reproached the undergraduates of Yale for not turning out to one of these rallies on the eve of the late lamented Yale-Harvard game Sport writers commenting on the game agreed that Mr. Jones emitted a mouthful when he said that the old spirit of Eli was not there...
Professional hockey is a somewhat synthetic sport in the U. S. Publicity from newspapers, which have not many games to write about in winter, and the inherent virtues of the sport have made it popular; so much so that last year 1,350,000 persons paid to see games. The organization of hockey resembles that of professional baseball except that, rather than an arbitrary distinction between two leagues, there is a real distinction between two "groups" of a single league. The teams play intergroup games during the season; at the end of the season the leaders in each group play...
...next decade of the '50's, growing tougher as the years progressed, until the first Monday of the fall term became literally a "Bloody Monday," although the day may not have been so named until much later. And so, on July 2, 1860, the sport was quietly and peacefully slain by the Faculty of the College...