Word: winning
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Last year Yale won the intercollegiate championship both in singles and doubles, but as no members of last year's team are entered for the present tournament it is improbable that Yale will win. Of this year's University team Prentice and Larned are the only ones who played last year. In the national tournament held at Newport in August, Prentice and Sulloway did well, the latter being defeated by B. C. Wright '03 only after a hard four set match...
...present discussion of the spirit of athletic sport, Frantz said, there are two extremes of opinion. One is, to have the best possible time, and not care whether the game is won or lost. This is a reaction caused by the other extreme view, which is to win at all costs. The middle course is to set out with the determination of winning, but by fair means alone...
...Thursday, thus furnishing a good part of the necessary, machinery for turning out organized cheering. Without these traditional features of a Yale game, however, much of the incentive for such cheering will be absent. Is not the experiment of omitting these features worth trying? The team will them win or lose on its own merits. And should it lose, I am sure lack of support will not be the cause. Harvard men hither to have never needed incentive to show their confidence in the teams that are playing for Harvard's honor, nor will they need any on Thursday. UNDERGRADUATE...
...approval or disapproval, and the risk that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic cheers exceeding all bounds of legitimate applause, may drift into intentional preparations to secure victory by vociferation,--a poor way to lose the contest, to be sure, but a worse way to win it. This is the real mischief of the business,--not in the act itself, but in the exaggeration and ill-directed utilization. Such occurrences as the explosive demonstrations by yachts aligned upon the last mile of boat races, demonstrations strictly forbidden by the course-regulations, and which render any communications...
Athletic supremacy is supposed to be decided by the prowess of the chosen teams. A deliberate attempt to win games by making so much noise as to confuse the players seems to me discreditable, and organized cheering of that sort should be suppressed...