Word: sportsmanship
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...Placid butcher. While the other athletes raised their right hands in assent, Skater Shea solemnly assured 5.000 spectators: "We swear that we will 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 for the glory of sport." First event was the 500-meter skating race. In the final, Shea got off to the quick start which is half the trick of winning a short race. Bill Logan, a Canadian, and Bernt Evenson, star...
Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges; Sportsmanship Brotherhood; American Football Coaches Association. They pondered "over-emphasis" of football, a matter recently brought to the attention of press & public by the fact that in the past autumn 45 football players died of injuries (TIME, Dec. 14). Sportsmanship Brotherhood was in formed by John T. MacGovern. co author of Carnegie Bulletin No. 23, excoriating professionalism in college football, that "the scandalous conduct of the spectators has done more to break down the best traditions of American athletics than any subsidizing . . . proselytizing. . . ." He laid the blame for over emphasis on "cigar...
...award, which is made to the competing athlete "who, by his or her performance or by his or her example and influence as an amateur and as a man or woman, has done most during the past year to advance the cause of sportsmanship", is made by a jury composed of 600 leaders in sports. Wood polled 236 votes, compared to 424 for Berlinger, and 111 for Ellsworth Vines, national tennis champion. The vote this year was one of the closest ever recorded for the medal...
...Hopkins Marine Station which the late great Ichthyologist David Starr ( Jordan helped found in 1892. But they have no course in hooking, playing and catching fish. Last week it was announced that such a course would be instituted next month. It does not guarantee to inculcate Fair Play, Sportsmanship. Patience et al. as does a course in Hunting & Fishing announced at Rollins College last September (TIME, Sept. 28). Stanford's five-week Fish Course will be part of the physical education program, promises "results but not fish. Students will be taught fly and bait casting. They will learn...
...last week ruled that members of the club "cannot chase foxes while under the influence of liquor," that liquor drinking, while hunting, was a misdemeanor punishable by suspension. Said President T. Stockton Matthews: "This is not advanced ... in restraint of personal privileges but simply means ... a spirit of good sportsmanship...