Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sport in Manhattan got on its bicycle last week and went in circles. 150,000 people paid cash to watch eleven two-man teams hurtle around an oval board track for money prizes in the six-day bicycle race...
...college sports which today arouse the greatest interest are undoubtedly football and rowing, and as during the last five years Harvard has won no football games and only one race at New London, there seems to have arisen a feeling that Harvard has for a long time more or less filled the role of athletic doormat for Yale teams in all forms of sport...
...League games to men who are either in the College or else graduates of Harvard pursuing their studies in the graduate schools. This will exclude graduates of other colleges from competing with their club and fraternity teams. It was also decided that winners of their "H" in a particular sport be ineligible to compete in that sport, but will be eligible in all other sports...
Those who have dabbled in touch football and other forms of intramural sport will welcome the step toward organization of this branch of athletics, which will be taken with the meeting of the Intramural Sports Council today. The lack of the system and of the stability imparted by the existence and activity of a governing body has been the most salient feature of the essays made in the field of inter club competition at Harvard...
...effect of the establishment of the Council should be two-fold. The elevation of intramural sport to a new position of power and dignity should not be more far-reaching in its results than the sense of responsibility generated in the minds of those engaging in competition under the direction of the new body. Instead of a haphazard series of games played under varying conditions of personnel of teams and with diverse rules, there will be organized a system before which difficulties will be smoothed...