Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John L. Newell, Jr. '57, a center on this year's varsity football squad, was awarded the William LaCroix Trophy last night at the football dinner. The LaCroix Trophy is given each year to the member of the J.V. or varsity team who "best exhibits the qualities of enthusiasm, sportsmanship, and team spirit...
...fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later, "but I stepped back just to show the crowd I had some sportsmanship...
London's bobbies traditionally go about their duties armed at most with truncheons. In a kind of underworld version of old-school-tie sportsmanship, the bullyboys and tearaways in "The Smoke"−as England's capital is known to its criminals−reciprocate by settling their private differences in an equally quiet way, with razor blades half-buried in potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled...
...Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation for sportsmanship...
...resolution, Lee said that in her participation in the games Tenley "exhibited true qualities of American girl-hood by exemplary and gracious conduct in competitive sports..." and that her sportsmanship has served to further the cause of world peace...