Word: sportmanship
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...there is certainly no doubt that Weiss has brought "great people" into the program-athletes who excel not only on the mats but off them as well. The team was recognized with the EIWA Sportmanship Award and also boasted the fourth highest cumulative GPA in Division I Wrestling. Matt Picarsic was distinguished with a spot on the Academic All-American Second Team, while both Volpe and El-Hayek received Honorable Mention accolades...
Harvard Co-Captain Ingrid Boyum received the tournament's prestigious Betty Ritichie Trophy for her sportmanship, excellence of play and leadership...
...then, the classic tempest in a teapot. It might happen again; Brandeis and Northeastern have severed athletic relations because someone was blocked too hard on a kickoff. All we can hope for is that today's encounter will be played in the cleanest fashion and under the rules of sportmanship that all gentlemen recognize. If they beat us too badly though, we can always drop them and play Marlboro instead
Throwing paper airplanes at a "push-over" game is childish and bad sportmanship, and one of the worst phases of "Harvard indifference," but the throwing of hard objects from behind, so that identification of the thrower is impossible, is in addition no less than cowardice, especially when no discrimination is made against ladies. Besides the wadded and rolled magazines, beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates...
...McFarlan objects to TIME'S treatment of the British Royal Family. They are such nice people and he is right about the Poor Sportmanship...