Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rugby has the largest turnout of any intercollegiate sport at harvard except football. It has two seasons, fall and spring, and close to sixty people consistently turn out for each...
...also happens to be a club sport here as well as at most other eastern American colleges, so despite the lwrge turnout it gets no university funding and cannot be sure from one season to the next if it will have a field to play...
Forget about your troubles and your cares. Go watch a ball game. And somehow, baseball is the easiest sport--excuse me, pastime--in which to lose yourself. It is not the national sport, as any good baseball man will tell you, it's the national pastime...
...quite sure what Henry's entrance will do for American sports. League officials are reportedly preparing for a new era of "shuttle contract negotiations," but it's still unclear whether the pudgy diplomat will have much effect on soaring player contracts' (Henry has reportedly told NASL team owners that, "Lower salaries are at hand."). Sources in Washington, however, note that high positions in the NASL have often been viewed as stepping-stones to the U.S. Senate (admittedly only by people with extremely poor eyesight), and speculate that Henry might be trying to shore up his American sportsman image before challenging...
...Crimson football team match-up against Cornell in (if you'll excuse me) the battle of the cellar-dwellars. Of course, I've got to point out that Cornell and Harvard, who are currently occupying the bottom two rungs of the Ivy League column after only one game, both sport better overall records than the two co-leaders, Yale and Dartmouth--so there...