Word: sportsmanship
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...Dean Briggs' administration. There have been a few,--quite recently--but they have been weathered to the satisfaction of everybody but the most hypercritical. Most important to the individual, the benefits of competitive athletics--often attacked and even denied--have been preserved and democratized; while the feeling of good sportsmanship with other colleges has been carefully nourished and encouraged. During his long guardianship Dean Briggs has brought University athletics to a condition of which he may well feel proud, and for which the University owes no little gratitude...
Arguing for a development of boxing as an intercollegiate sport four years ago, Dr. Paul Withington declared: "It is as clean as any other sport we have, and if conducted properly, should develop the same good sportsmanship as football or track." And probably even the giant Firpo will now admit that its essence is skill and not brute strength. If comparison is made with other sports, boxing is certainly to be preferred to wrestling and is less dangerous than football. But its organization on an intercollegiate basis offers inherent difficulties as exemplified by the recent ruling of Yale authorities that...
...occasion was a football game between German and French civilians. Both teams evinced great sportsmanship and there was no unusually rough play. The French won the match 5?0, their team being faster and cleverer than the Germans, who were heavy and powerful. After the match the two teams exchanged hearty "hoch's" and "vive...
...that Mrs. Coolidge had accepted a canary from the American Canary Breeders' Association; received an invitation to attend the annual football game of his alma mater, Amherst, with Williams at Williamstown; wired back: "Regret I cannot accept your invitation. Am sure contest will be marked by same clean sportsmanship which has always marked relations of two colleges "; heard that the score was: Amherst, 7; Williams...
...stop the Yale attack and turn some golden opportunity into a chance for a score. It was trying for the spectators. But it is another tribute to Yale and to Harvard that, under such circumstances, such a game should have been possible--another game of cleanest rivalry and finest sportsmanship...