Word: sportsmanship
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Last week the two styles bumped head on. The result was a howl about sportsmanship-and the prospect of some changes in European hockey. In Prague for the world amateur championship, Canada's Belleville (Ont.) MacFarlands played so rough that they drew boos, as they had through much of a month-long pre-tournament tour. The MacFarlands needed police protection in Stockholm. In Finland they were pelted with snowballs, accused of being a "hooligan gang." In West Germany, Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung cried that the MacFarlands played "like a bunch of hoodlums . . . ramming down everything that came...
With this statement, coach Jack Barnaby summed up yesterday's surprising loss to a mediocre, but hard fighting team. This is not a case of bitterness over a close loss, for Barnaby's sportsmanship is well known, but he was frank to add, "While I have lost before, I have never had such an unpleasant experience in 26 years of coaching...
...Minneapolis, 7-1 in Hibbing, Minn. Last week the Russians outclassed an all-star team of Michigan and Michigan State players, trounced Colorado College before being held to a surprising 4-4 tie by the University of Denver. Said Coach Anatoli Tarasov, beaming amiably: "It's the sportsmanship that counts...
...difference yesterday was that instead of running up its point total as Jordan Olivar had, the Crimson cricketers graciously declared themselves out with the loss of only eight of its permitted ten wickets. It was a combination of good-sportsmanship and faith in their own bowling, plus, parenthetically, a great thirst which called for liquid refreshment, beer rather than...
...tour parried questions with the noncommittal skill of a Cabinet minister. What about attacks on boxing? "I wouldn't like to make any comment," said Floyd. "But don't you agree," asked Fight Fan Braddock, "that boxing for every physically fit boy gives him balance, judgment and sportsmanship?" Replied Patterson, after deep thought: "Definitely." Viewing the Thames, Visitor Patterson delivered a judgment on the great grey river that any Englishman would accept: "Mighty cold...