Word: sportsmanship
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...buildings have already become a part. Yet no congratulation the University could receive on this account could be more welcome than the graceful tribute which the Harvard CRIMSON has paid it. May ungrudging recognition of the good fortune of a rival continue to be the sort of excellent sportsmanship by which the ancient rivalry is most graced. We welcome the CRIMSON'S felicitations as expressive of the sentiment of Yale's oldest friend. Yale News...
...American Athletic Union, to the end that the colleges should have a greater part in the organization of the nation's preparation for the Olympic games. In this connection, Professor A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago urged that a sentiment be created for a higher standard of sportsmanship in our efforts to win international events and thus prevent foreign nations from attributing to us the methods they describe as essentially those of professionals...
...going to take the liberty to approach my subject from the negative side and will first tell you what scouting is not,"--Coach Knox began. "I appreciate that there may be exceptions, but the big eastern universities, I am sure, adhere strictly to the following fundamentals of good sportsmanship...
...never seeks to obtain the signals of an opponent and, even if he learns some of them inadvertently through the carelessness or constant repetition of a thoughtless quarterback, he never gives them to his own team. As a matter of fact and pride from a question of sportsmanship, signals are changeable even in the course of a game and information about them may be a boomerang...
...their alma maters have established, within the shelter of the cloisters and beyond. The spectators of both colors will file out of the Stadium with mingled feelings it is true but with one thought in common: that they have seen fitly represented the spirit of hard fighting and true sportsmanship for which their universities stand...