Word: unsportsman
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McCarter added that there was no basis for thinking that the Dartmouth coaches had inspired any unsportsman-like conduct...
...Anthony temper was most bitterly expressed in a page headed "We Nominate for Oblivion-," an imitation of the feature created some months ago by Vanity Fair. Nominated for oblivion by Ballyhoo are Vanity Fair because its Oblivion department is "unsportsman-like"; Life, because "it cannot make up its mind whether to imitate Judge or the New Yorker...
Despite the startling example the Frenchman displayed of what courage can accomplish with poor fighting equipment (oldtimers called it as brave a fight as ever boxer fought), 30,000 Americans jammed in the New York Polo Grounds booed. It was probably the worst example of collective unsportsman-ship this country has exhibited at an international sporting event. The answer is that Dundee is a New York boy, and New York wanted him to win. It is simply the answer - there is no justification...
...only unfortunate incident of the contest occurred when J. Gaston of the Freshman seven was expelled from the game in the first half for unsportsman-like conduct...
...Princeton, seem to have no settled relations with each other. Such a state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to every one who feels that college athletics above all should be free from politics and securely based on frankness and sincerity. Surely this mutual distrust and suspicion is unmanly and unsportsman like and entirely out of harmony with Yale's great moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling and compromise and friction...