Word: sportsmanship
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...rugby in the U. S. Last summer, the Cambridge Vandals, a club team, visited the U. S. for matches at Chicago and New York. Percy M. Heywood, the Vandals' captain, agreed to try to persuade Cambridge authorities to permit the Cambridge Varsity to visit the U. S. The Sportsmanship Brotherhood was happy to sponsor the tour. Editor Arthur S. Draper of the Literary Digest, with whom rugby is a private obsession, started a campaign for funds. Cambridge authorities agreed to send the Varsity, put up $3,500. Marshall Field, vice president of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, is likely...
...Tomkins House, the dormitory used by visiting teams, Bingham pronounced himself satisfied that the Harvard athletes are not involved in the dog's disappearance. He said, "I hope that if any Harvard undergraduates have taken the dog, they will consider that good judgment and a sense of sportsmanship dictate that the dog be returned immediately...
Cambridge University will send a rugby team to the United States this April to meet Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in New York, under the sponsorship of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood...
...outside, felt they had been brazenly flouted. On the other hand, they fumed, the situation remained chaotic because the assistants were outsiders Neale & Myers of West Virginia, Williamson of Michigan. While alumni raged, the undergraduate Daily News accepted the decision as "logical, practical . . . consistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship...
...Sportsmanship Brotherhood of New York City is trying to arrange a definite schedule for the Cambridge squad in America in April, but the college teams from here feel that they must follow through their schedule already planned, because the Californian crowds and weather are much more sure than those of New York. Some scheme may be worked out whereby the Cambridge team will go to the coast or the Stanford team will come to New York...