Word: sportsmanship
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...display of sportsmanship the Brown and Harvard athletic directors got together and moved the game to Sunday night. Robert Watson and Pittenger on the Cambridge end, and Andy Geiger on the Providence smoothed out the schedule change...
...been selected as the winner of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League player of the year for 1973. The award voted by the eight Ivy coaches is presented annually by the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials to the player who displays outstanding qualities of "sportsmanship, leadership, competitive spirit, contributions to the team and accomplishments on the field...
...Louis G. Williams Memorial Trophy was split between two players for the first time ever. Brian Fearnett and Lawson Wulsin, both fullbacks, shared the honor awarded to the senior who "displayed an exceptional degree of those qualities of athletic skill and sportsmanship, of devotion to his team and to the highest ideals of competitive sports which characterized the man for whom the award is named." Williams played at Harvard between...
...SPARTAN. As the international Olympics take on the tones of factionalism and hypocrisy, professional sport looks almost sanitary. There are no exotic pennants to salute, no speeches of sportsmanship or geopolitical ideals...
...giggles, averaging about .265. Like Richard Nixon, he must make everything perfectly clear. Roth distends everything beyond the operating limits of farce. He seems out to do nothing less than debunk every myth of American life. Top on his list is the notion of winning by fair play and sportsmanship. In a total inversion of those Boys Life inspirational stories, Roth tells of Gil Gamesh, a pitcher so great that he refuses to obey the rules...