Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding their annual meetings concurrently in New York, members of the American Football Coaches Association, Sportsmanship Brotherhood, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football spent three days last week talking about football...
Drunkenness at football games, President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette, speaking to the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, blamed on nonalumni visitors...
...spite of the strained feeling between the rivals, a remarkable quality of sportsmanship was evinced by the Standishites. When the ranks of the Gorites became thinned by desertion, their rivals actually lent two fielders so that the game could be finished...
...this in his mind. It is regrettable that such should be the implication because if ever there was a question which required exactness of definition, that of participating in a Nazi Olympiad is the one. It is true that the Nazis would be guilty of a breach of sportsmanship should it be found that they have denied the right of competition of Jewish athletes, but our case rests on an even firmer basis. The Naxis-have discriminated against Catholic sports organizations and dissenting Prostestant groups in a way which is mild only when compared with the treatment accorded the Jewish...
Loudest reply to Mr. Sherrill promptly came from "Jerry" Mahoney who told the Social Problems Club at Columbia University: "The Nazi invitation ... is a subterfuge without cordiality or real sportsmanship." Retaliated Mr. Sherrill: "Why doesn't Jerry see to it that Jews are admitted as members of the New York Athletic Club, of which he is a member?" Snarled Mr. Mahoney: "I have nothing to do with New York Athletic Club policies. General Sherrill is also a member. I would like to know what he thinks of it." Any chance that the uproar might degenerate into a locker-room...