Word: sportsmanship
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...Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds that throng the grandstands are so ill-mannered and when there...
...question appear very much like a fussy old woman with a potato too hot for her fingers, which pride will not let her lay down. The unfortunate part of it all is that evidences of fussy penny-wise pettiness like this, and isolated cases of what we call "poor sportsmanship", lose more friends for France in this country, than all the invocations of national friendship can gain...
...healthful sport, as there are few branches of athletics that produce better physical results than sculling. It is done in the open and strengthens the abdominal and back muscles, develops the limbs, broadens the chest, helps the heart and lungs to function and, above everything else, makes for good sportsmanship which is the basic principle of all sports...
...whereas we all welcome the ardent loyalty to the home team which intercollegiate competition engenders, lot us remember that true sportsmanship involves the ability to see this same quality in one's rivals. --"The Tech...
...then there is the question of the student bodies. The means of insuring good sportsmanship and strict amateur standing in college athletics is not through compulsion of any sort, but through the education of college public opinion. When every college man realizes that the game itself, and not its result, is the really important thing in sport, there will be no fear of professionalism or anything like it. The prevalent idea that it is a positive disgrace to lose a game is what is largely responsible for most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling...