Word: sportsmanship
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Wing Jimmy Thomas received the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup for the most valuable player. The award goes annually to that player who, beyond ability, displays qualities of sportsmanship, leadership and team cooperation, and has that quality called "the old come-through-in-the-pinch...
Along with considerable skill, the hockey teams of Harvard coaches Cooney Weiland and then Bill Cleary have always, in my experience, demonstrated an admirable degree of sportsmanship. I do not know of any sport, in fact, in which Harvard teams do not meet the high standard of conduct one should presumably expect of college athletes in amateur competition. It is a pity this example can't be followed by all spectators...
Surely no great intellect is required in order to understand that goalie baiting, which often reaches vicious extremes, displays an utter disregard for sportsmanship and common decency. Certainly the Golden Rule, however trite it may seem, is not beyond the intellectual grasp of even those morons who insist on detracting from good hockey by their gratuitous abuse of athletes who happen to play for an opposing team...
...order to accept for a moment-in the name of good sportsmanship and the brotherhood of nations-that there are 1,500 gags in this movie, then it must be added that approximately 1,498 are not funny. No one ever said that gags have to be funny, of course. It helps if they are, but that may be asking too much. Certainly it is of the people involved with this movie...
...called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...