Word: sportsmanship
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...perfectly true that the present system of high-pressure football thrown on the altar of the golden calf, is not an ideal one, either from the general standpoint of sportsmanship, or from the point of view of the players. Nevertheless, it is equally true that the system has advantages, that it permits a greater expansion of lesser sports, and that in any case, it will not be altered until the Athletic Association places all sport on a sound financial basis. If and when the football system goes, West Point, since it is an unsuitable match for Harvard from the standpoint...
Annual University tournaments in swimming and boxing were held yesterday at the Indoor Athletic Building. Open to all men in the University, both were featured by even competition and clean sportsmanship...
...business had failed and he must make his own way. And with all this, the directors (most famed of whom were Percy Avery Rockefeller, James A. Stillman, the late John D. Ryan) knew that Banker Mitchell had not acted without their consent. Thus they permitted considerations of sportsmanship to prevail over the consideration of public responsibility...
...first time this year the B. F. Vanderveer cup is to be awarded to a member of the Freshman crew rowing against Yale. The award will be made to the man who shows the most improvement, is outstanding in sportsmanship, and who does the most for the betterment of the crew. It has been given in honor of B. F. Vanderveer '35, captain of last year's Freshman crew, who was killed in an accident last summer...
...firecracker under the athletic world by severing connections with Harvard because of an unfortunate Lampoon editorial. The break was, however, due to more than a broadside in the college comic; it was caused by a crisis in relations that had been badly frayed by lack of tact, sportsmanship, and sanity. The editorials reprinted below are all too reliable witnesses to that; there is a malevolence betrayed in them which one feels, cannot return. The day of football rallies, of graduate agitation for a larger and finer stadium, of point-a-minute teams, has passed. The false pride and exaggerated loyalty...