Word: sportsmanship
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...group of New England sportswriters, will receive the award at a banquet Monday, Jan. 18. Also a baseball player, he played junior varsity football for three years and worked with the varsity in practice scrimmages. At the football banquet in December, Leamy received the William Paine LaCroix Award for sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirti...
Charles D. Leamy '60 won the William Paine LaCroix Award for sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit, H. Holton Wood '31 announced at the banquet...
...delivered an 18-page "white paper," rewriting history, charging economic aggression and warning that Cuba will buy arms and planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests" of a "small group" of U.S. citizens...
...Harvard had finally come. Crimson coach Lloyd Jordan said publicly only that "that sort of thing makes football," but insiders felt that he was less than pleased by the incident. Captain John Nichols was less reticent about his feelings, declaring, "Frankly I think it stinks." Mutterings about "good sportsmanship" echoed between Cambridge and New Haven for a few weeks before the matter slowly died...
Unfortunately, the contest was also distinguished in a different and uglier way. It is necessary to say here that The Lampoon put on a brutish display of calculated poor sportsmanship. Even the 'Poon's most hardened critics were appalled at her vicious effort to avoid defeat...