Word: sportsmanship
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Harvard students have never been lacking in sportsmanship and in willingness to respect a visiting team...
Therefore, there is no need to teach the Harvard students sportsmanship by overdoing the applause to the visiting teams and by showing a mean spirit towards Harvard. --Boston American...
...next October when the Crimson meets Centre again. It will be a fight from start to finish; it will prove furthermore that the South as well as the East can produce a machine of eleven real football players; it will bring to Cambridge a group of men to whom sportsmanship is second nature; it will cement the good felling between Harvard and the South. In other words, it will be like last Saturday's battle in the Stadium, when the gold and white of Centre flashed so clean and brilliant...
...guests will want to join. Is there any reason why the Harvard side of the stadium should show a silent indifference to its opponents, a sort of cold superiority to the presence of smaller colleges? Why save for the Princeton and Yale games the exhibition of enthusiasm and fine sportsmanship which Harvard can and has shown? So far the host in the stadium has done too little to create an atmosphere which will make those who "boo" feel decidedly out of place. We expect the team to act like fine sportsmen; why not expect as much from the Harvard supporters...
...that leads me to believe that they are in sympathy with it. They took their defeat manfully, and even if they did not win in their entire stay very admirably represented the University that sent them forth. Mr. Palmer himself should be taught some of the first principles of sportsmanship. Every University has its traditions. An experience of over a quarter of a century with Harvard undergraduates leads me to believe that they insist on courtesy...