Word: sportsmanship
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...have believed that sportsmanship and statesmanship called for the elimination of harsh personalities between opponents...
...strive for winning teams, and that no team should be handicapped by want of proper training. In order to obtain the best results in the building of character, Yale, moreover, will be willing to pay the men who furnish this instruction as well as the building up of good sportsmanship, and hopes eventually to have them members of the regular university staff...
...expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan of the U. S. Navy, selected because he has been on four U. S. Olympic fencing teams, recited the oath for the entire host of contestants, his right hand solemnly and correctly raised, his left...
...eleventh hour, unsportsmanlike attempt to change the rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...thirds rule should no longer be adopted. It is undemocratic. Nevertheless it is true that the issue was not raised until after the delegates to the convention had been selected and I decline to permit either myself or my friends to be open to the accusation of poor sportsmanship or to the use of methods which could be called, even falsely, those of a steamroller. I am accordingly asking my friends in Chicago to cease their activities to secure the adoption of the majority nominating rule...