Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...athletic relations with Harvard some 31 years ago this Nov.11. The reasons for this break were not a stolen drum or an injured linesman but a feeling "of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman and cares more for athletic victories than clean sportsmanship." Whether or not this feeling was prompted by the Tigers beating the Crimson 36-0 and 34-0 in 1924 and 1925 is unknown; the fact is that the two institutions did not compete against one another in any sport until 1931 and not in football until...
...Lampoon then blew the whole situation wide open by publishing an issue on the day of the game almost wholly dedicated to the most vitriolic attacks on Princeton and its conduct in athletic events against Harvard. In its editorial, it commented, "Lampy looks forward to no chivalrous exhibition of sportsmanship; it will be a glorious free-for-all masquerading under the name of football and the Jester proposes to make the most of them. The Princeton brawl comes but once a year; it may never come again...
...Fuzzy Sportsmanship." Such attacks, often made in sermons published the next day as full-page ads in the student newspaper, led last year's whimsically sardonic senior class to name Halton as their favorite comedian, and the man "least likely to send his son to Princeton." But the administration was not amused, asked the Diocese of Trenton to recall its chastising chaplain. The request was denied...
...university privileges were to be withdrawn, Halton, who holds doctorates in philosophy and civil law from Oxford, took to his pulpit to defend his stands. "It simply isn't polite to have convictions in academic circles today," he said, "sweet reasonableness and a curious kind of fuzzy sportsmanship have conditioned us to believe that truth necessarily lies in the middle. I shall continue to speak in defense of the central issues of Catholic doctrine and discipline, the central postulates of faith and reason in an academic context...
...gala banquet that evening, many speeches hailed the sportsmanship and the solidarity of the race. Each competitor was given a medal with the arms of the four colleges on either side...