Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clare Briggs uses a No. 170 pen, scorns to end his strips with "plop" or "bam," loves circuses, attended the University of Nebraska. "The Days of Real Sport" are his own never-finished childhood...
...There is a tradition about sport in England", Henry went on to say, "which is not found in our highly organized and progressive system. There is a story which I think demonstrates the point I am trying to bring out about Pfann, Cornell's famous backfield man, who went to Oxford, where he took up Rugby. In Rugby there is much passing of the ball, but it is all done underhand and when Pfann and one of his former teant-mates introduced the overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this...
...does the English oarsman ever become overtrained; not because he puts less into his training than the American, but because he is blessed with a peculiar psychology which enables him to look on sport as sport and not as a grind. The Oxford or Cambridge 'hearty' talks rowing, thinks it and, in fact, lives for nothing else. At this point I might refer to what we would consider a most inefficient method of selecting and developing a crew. In the early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen...
...statement is this: "I do not want to see it exalted to its ruin by uncomprehending forces outside the college life not do I want to see it stifled to its death by exasperated forces within." He sees, what many another student of the situation perceives, that the sport has become an enormous business overshadowing almost all other forms of college activity, and that the men who make the team and great numbers of students who do not reach the varsity, live, through many months of the year by and for football and nothing else, under discipline second in efficiency...
...annual report to the President of the University, Dr. T. K. Richards, '15, Chief Surgeon of the Harvard Athletic Association, commented on the wide scope of his work in taking care of undergraduates who are out for some sport and the progress made in providing better means of keeping these men in good physical condition...