Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more value even than the intrinsic subject of the group, the leader of a boys' club teaches self-control and good sportsmanship...
...must be willing to include others who might prove to be logical additions. It should be formed with the ideal that it will be expanded to include every phase of intercollegiate sport, and that it will make an honest attempt to fulfill the highest standards of sportsmanship. In this way those universities whose common background is the oldest and most distinguished in the country will be able at last to assume the responsibility of leading the way out of confusion into enlightened cooperation for the best interests of intercollegiate sport...
...time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors, he evidently has a heart...
...stadium last Saturday Virginia was represented by players whose sense of fair play and sportsmanship did the University credit. It is disappointing that in the field of editorial opinion a precisely opposite attitude should prevail. In their desire to have a winning team at any price the undergraduates of Virginia have indicted amateurism for crimes it never could have committed, and their cry, instead of being a call to a better world of sport, is nothing but the last shriek of retreat...
...reviewing stand. German Weightlifter Rudolf Ismayr mounted a tiny rostrum, recited through amplifiers so everyone could hear: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." A German choir sang Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, the athletes marched slowly...