Word: sportsmanship
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...seems impossible that he ever will. While organized cheering is in theory far from perfect, still it seems to be the only method by which hundreds of enthusiastic and care-free supporters of a college team can give vent to their enthusiasm and the spirit of loyalty, manliness, and sportsmanship that is overflowing in them. As such, organized cheering is a worthy and desirable institution, but it sinks into the worst kind of unsportmanship when used only to drown out the signals of the opposing quarterback, or to rattle the other team when it has the field. At recent intercollegiate...
...Colwell spoke on the good sportsmanship of track work and the opportunity for sociability and friendly rivalry. M. H. Stone '07 spoke of the importance of persistent and early training...
...effective leading, and should express with speed and strength of sound the approval and support of the University. Cheering of a good play which is perceptibly weaker in sound than that of the opponents is worse than none. Prolonged cheering, intended to drown out the other side, is bad sportsmanship, because confusing to the opposing team, and bad policy, because confusing...
...attempts of crowds to disconcert a player who is essaying a place kick, or to rattle a pitcher at a critical moment, or of players themselves, who imitate the tactics of cheap professional teams with hysterical cacklings on and off the diamond,--these are sad signs of a decadent sportsmanship. To be sure, the true athlete will keep his eye on the ball rather than on the bleachers, and his thoughts on the game rather than on the outside gamesters; taking his cue from the captain instead of the crowd; but even the steadiest players are not always fire proof...
Only within recent years has an interest been felt either by English or American university men in international athletic contests. The growing familiarity of each with the other has therefore revealed wide differences not only in the technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century...