Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith...
Think beyond sportsmanship, Harvard men, unless your ambulance will carry the wounded for BOTH sides. Eugene C. Worman...
...Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...evidence of good sportsmanship is that a man who has had a chance to present a fair case to a fair tribunal must be a good sport and accept the outcome. Courts only decide things that are submitted to them, and only things that are in dispute come before them...
...years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt of his contract with Madison Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would go to court to stop the fight...