Word: sportsmanship
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...theory football is good for the players, for the general body of undergraduates, and for the alumni. For the players, football serves to build character, to inspire personal courage, and to develop true sportsmanship; but present overemphasis tends to rob the game of all pleasure and make it a grim and serious business. For the general body of undergraduates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatically the ideals of the college; but present overemphasis tends to give it a false importance which-distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back...
...football season is over, and Harvard is proud of the team which, under the able leadership of Captain Cheek, has faced the vicissitudes of fortune with an equal display of good sportsmanship and unflagging spirit. The Yale game of 1925 will long be remembered in Harvard annals to the crowning glory of that team which would not be daunted by jeers, criticism, overwhelming odds, and even defeats...
...tracks. They had ridden into a deep culvert with sides too steep for the horses to vault when suddenly the rails began to tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they could. To do this was not difficult. They had only to dismount and look the other way while the train took their horses. Sportsmanship offered them a dubious chance. They took it, struck in their spurs, and dashed straight...
...efforts of the Central Board of Officials to uphold the fearless administration of the rules and the maintenance of the highest standards of sportsmanship are heartily endorse...
...influence of the coach upon undergraduates who come under him, and whom he comes to know in many cases far better than do most teachers in their classrooms, is incalculable," Dr. Kennedy writes. "If that influence is good, making for discipline and inculcation of sportsmanship, the coach becomes in a real sense an assisting agent in the processes of the student's education. If that influence is evil, permitting false values and a repudiation of sportsmanship to govern the boy's point of view, the coach becomes a sinister, and perhaps a powerful underminer of the high purpose...