Word: sportsmanship
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...unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...
...joint rules and regulations alone; it can only be eradicated by the arousing of public sentiment against it so strong that it will no longer be tolerated in the schools. The statement published this morning will serve as a definition; its enforcement depends primarily upon the standards of sportsmanship prevalent in the institutions of secondary education throughout the country...
...London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week...
...contributed much toward world-progress in aviation; in his next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
...even we realize how much confidence the University has placed in Coach Haughton's ability to develop its football teams. Nor has that confidence been misplaced. During the nine years of his career as head coach Haughton has developed his elevens with system and success always an apostle of sportsmanship and sane athletic method. We cherish the hope that circumstances may yet permit Haughton to occupy at least an advisory capacity in the training of the University's elevens. Should such an arrangement prove impossible we mush seek to replace him with a man who will be qualified to carry...