Word: sportivo
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...Mexico City President Emilio Fortes Gil attended, as he had promised he would do (TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn...
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