Word: sportsmanship
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...name of Harvard has lost a lot of respect in the Far West, and probably in the whole country, not because Harvard has a poor football team, but because Harvard showed a surprising lack of sportsmanship...
When I was at Harvard last year and the year before, I was impressed with the spirit of sportsmanship that I felt I found there. It was a shocking disillusionment to hear of Harvard's refusal to play football with Stanford next season...
...January 21, one of your chaps, Charles W. Bailey, put a rotten egg in his beer. He was speaking of the insanity code, and in doing so evidenced what might very well be considered poor sportsmanship by writing: "There seem to be ways of getting around the matter of salaries--you can start a "Buck-A-Month" Club, like Stanford, and have the Alumni pay the bill...
Council president Mclvin L. Zurier '50, when reached in New York last night, called the charges "Ill-founded" and said they were based on "poor sportsmanship...
...most violent disagreement came in regard to Bingham's belittling of the Big Three rivalry. Not only did everyone feel that this was untrue, but in most cases it was interpreted as a sign of "poor sportsmanship" on the part of the Crimson. "Hell," one senior said, "just wait until they start winning some of these Big Three games--if they ever do--and then the rivalry will be mighty important...