Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sportsmanship and Hitler are far from bedmates, but even Germany's most embittered opponents will agree that the ideal of the Olympic games has always been one of international amity and fair play. In supporting such a principle, American athletes should suppress their personal feelings about the internal affairs of the host and make only one demand upon the German government. This demand is that no discrimination against any racial or religious group should take place during the Olympics or in the events preparatory to them...
Everyone at Wimbledon last week knew what had happened after that: how newspapers had accused Mrs. Moody of poor sportsmanship; how she had spent a year and a half recovering her health; how Helen Jacobs had gone to Wimbledon in 1934 and been unexpectedly beaten in the finals by an English girl named Dorothy Round; how last spring Mrs. Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented...
...countless tournaments. Yet so far as tennis is concerned, Harry constantly insists on playing for the game's sake, rather than for the sake of piling up an impressive winning streak. And those who have had the privilege of his instruction in squash never forget his emphasis on sportsmanship first, and victory second...
...announcement which appears today to the effect that the protest has been repelled at a mutual request to the intercollegiate League that the game be played over from the beginning. It is a move based on an admirable spirit of cooperation, and upon the principles of sportsmanship which rightfully belong to all sports contests...
...need to resort to ill feelings and emotional reactions to settle differences. But, aside from the present significance of the agreement, it should serve as a guidepost for all future occasions and as an example to other contesting colleges as well. There is no need for legal decisions when sportsmanship prevails. The Daily Princetonian...