Word: sportsmanship
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...development even more sinister than the external aspects of commercialism in intercollegiate sport, and at the same time an apparent offshoot of them, is the gradual change in the psychological attitude of the undergraduate toward those mores that once were considered the essentials of good sportsmanship. If this phenomenon were evidenced only at Princeton in such recent unpleasant flurries of booing as at the Yale hockey game and the Penn basketball game, we might possibly have regarded it as a momentary and localized lapse from gentlemanly conduct which would not soon recur. But with disturbing remembrance of similar demonstrations...
Another factor in the new attitude has been the sweeping undergraduate reaction which has followed on the heels of the "rah-rah collegiatism" produced in the middle of the post-war decade. Because sentimentalists and publicists seized and exploited the traditional forms of sportsmanship, it too has been driven to cover by the current wave of disgust at all the lack of restraint that the word "Collegiate" now implies...
That this reactionary flood should have swept away the old sportsmanship is to be deplored, but because it is an extreme swing of the pendulum, we sincerely, trust that it will not be long before the formerly cherished standards return. Certainly at Princeton, the professionalized attitude toward teams seems distinctly out of place and unwarranted, despite the trend of the times. It is not too much to suppose that Princeton spectators are still innately gentlemen and, as gentlemen, sportsmen in the finest meaning of the word. --Dally Princetonian...
...Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Out of a selected panel of ten amateur athletes (TIME, Dec. 1) they named him No. 1, gave him the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1930 as the amateur who "has done most to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Jones got 1,625 votes from the Union's members; Clarence De Mar, runner up, 800; Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...