Word: sportsmanship
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Instead, the freshman served as a motivator and a leader, a sparkling example of quality tennis and sportsmanship for the entire Harvard squad...
...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of a real cleam, healthy American sportsmanship, 57,000 fans haven't paid $4.80 and upward to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
They remember the 34-19 humbling that Yale delivered at The Stadium last year and they remember their helplessness as they endured a Detroit Pistons-like show of sportsmanship by Elis fans whose premature celebrations prolonged an already lengthy...
...president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Robert Helmick had a job whose power and prestige were rivaled only by the nobility of its ideals: patriotism, sportsmanship and international understanding. For the past six years, the Des Moines lawyer and former water-polo star controlled a $75 million annual budget and headed a federation of 41 organizations that train and finance America's Olympic athletes...
...school football, boys are often taught to "take out" players from the opposite team. Taking out a player means injuring a player so badly that he can no longer play. I would say that is cruel and entirely inappropriate. There have been studies that indicate that instead of learning sportsmanship and fair play, boys who are involved in competitive sports demonstrate less of these qualities than boys who are not involved...