Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting on Monday the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports voted a minor sport status to the rifle club and the right to award six H's, including the manager...
Finns are mainly concerned with marketing timber and with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...
...Finns readily agree that their average athlete is neither mentally nor physically equipped for sprint or team sports. However, a good deal of soccer is played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country districts by 40,000 players in 600 clubs. But Finns regard track as their national sport even more fanatically than do Americans baseball or Englishmen cricket...
...hoopmen will assemble at 7:30 o'clock, while the pucksters meet tomorrow night at the same time. The third major winter sport, swimming, has been started earlier in the fall, and the mermen are working out daily in the Indoor Athletic Building pool...
...rifle club, headed by Walter L. Hyde '41, will continue to hold open house in the basement of Memorial Hall this week. Over 100 men signified their interest in the sport by participating in the shooting there last week...