Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems ridiculous to adopt the attitude that a man must wrestle badly and beneath his abilities to insure team victory. But that is exactly the position adopted by wrestling coaches, especially throughout New England. For the past several years, one of our fore-most rivals in the sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying...
Fablan tactics are often useful in war, but intercollegiate wrestling is not war; it is a sport where each man should be allowed to do his best to beat his opponent. A coach is employed to teach a man how to wrestle, and when he deliberately orders a man to forget all he knows about wrestling and go on the mat and play tag, that coach should be asked to resign. Any coach realizes that great wrestlers cannot be developed by men who have been taught to stall. In the wrestling game, more than any other sport, perhaps, the greatest...
...Yardling sport fans will have a busy afternoon keeping in touch with the Frosh puckmen, who meet a heavily favored St. Paul's sextet at Concord and the hoopsters, who meet Tabor Academy at Marion...
...Kirkland Roberts and Abrams carried away the game, chalking up 8 points apiece. Roberts' spectacular shot from the center of the floor was a high sport in an otherwise uneventful game...
...results of this meet will be interesting in view of the good showing made by the team at Hanover last weekend where they captured third place in the downhill competition behind Dartmouth and McGill, the two colleges where skiing is a major sport...