Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this statement, coach Jack Barnaby summed up yesterday's surprising loss to a mediocre, but hard fighting team. This is not a case of bitterness over a close loss, for Barnaby's sportsmanship is well known, but he was frank to add, "While I have lost before, I have never had such an unpleasant experience in 26 years of coaching...
...Minneapolis, 7-1 in Hibbing, Minn. Last week the Russians outclassed an all-star team of Michigan and Michigan State players, trounced Colorado College before being held to a surprising 4-4 tie by the University of Denver. Said Coach Anatoli Tarasov, beaming amiably: "It's the sportsmanship that counts...
...difference yesterday was that instead of running up its point total as Jordan Olivar had, the Crimson cricketers graciously declared themselves out with the loss of only eight of its permitted ten wickets. It was a combination of good-sportsmanship and faith in their own bowling, plus, parenthetically, a great thirst which called for liquid refreshment, beer rather than...
...tour parried questions with the noncommittal skill of a Cabinet minister. What about attacks on boxing? "I wouldn't like to make any comment," said Floyd. "But don't you agree," asked Fight Fan Braddock, "that boxing for every physically fit boy gives him balance, judgment and sportsmanship?" Replied Patterson, after deep thought: "Definitely." Viewing the Thames, Visitor Patterson delivered a judgment on the great grey river that any Englishman would accept: "Mighty cold...
...aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of a subdued advertising executive. He spoke good English, and as he began to read the text of a formal speech he ad-libbed that he liked to ski, swim, play tennis; he broadened that into "good sportsmanship" and that into "good neighbors" and that into "peaceful coexistence...