Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should think that Bantam Ben Hogan would rather have that picture, in defeat, and your beautifully written June 27 tribute to his character and sportsmanship, than to have won his fifth U.S. Open title...
Alan S. Rapperport '55 of University City, Mo., and Dunster House has won the second annual Harold S. Ulen Swimming Trophy, named for his coach and awarded to the varsity senior who displays "highest sportsmanship and team effort...
...Frank White is a symbol of the good sportsmanship that prevails wherever good fellows get together and light up a cigarette or pipe. . . ." The speaker coughed and put down his cigar...
White eat the main table; next to Lloyd Jordan, and listened attentively. "I'd like to introduce a few speakers," said the master of ceremonies. He did. They talked about sportsmanship and athletics and the American way of life. They talked about them for one hundred and thirty-seven minutes. We smoked forty-five cigarettes...
...Whitfield, 30, the world's best half-miler, won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the U.S. amateur athlete "who, by performance, example and good influence, did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." "Marvelous Mai," the first Negro winner of the Sullivan Trophy since it was established in 1930, actually had his best year in 1953, but his amateur standing was under scrutiny then (he has since been fully cleared...