Word: sportsmanship
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Phil Isenberg, captain of the 1950 football team and an outstanding line backer for three years, will receive the annual Henry J. Pinney award for sportsmanship at a dinner Monday night in the Hotel Somerset...
Here is a sport without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...
...stands who will cheer them on to glory, will in a few years march hand in hand (figuratively speaking, of course) into the larger world that counts for so much more than sport. They will remember their happy undergraduate days, and they will be fired with a feeling of sportsmanship. The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; we would amend his inspired sentence to read: the battle of life is to be won on the playing field of Harvard Stadium...
From this point of view it little matters who wins the game to be played on the Crimson greensward today. From the point of view of sportsmanship, it does not matter that Dartmouth's Indians have won the last three years under the great coaching of Tuss McLaughry...
...Cunningham's may not be entirely futile. A community's standard of decency may have appreciable effect on editorial policy of that indignation is expressed in the firm resolution to let the Herald be read only by those who find amusement in a bad boy's blasphemy and sportsmanship in Mr. Cunningham's temperament. Mark DeW. Howe '28 Professor...