Word: cleanness
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...fact that the University sextet suffered a decided set-back in the early part of the season detracts little from the record of eight successive victories over the best of eastern hockey combinations. The Toronto university team, in its sweeping tour of the country, succeeded in keeping a clean slate and successively crushed the strongest college sextets, thereby gaining a fair claim to the world's amateur hockey title. In the face of such an impressive record the Crimson's decisive defeat at the hands of the Canadians testifies not so much to the weakness of the University players...
...much as possible; (2) Abolish all "summer" or pre-college term practice; (3) Abolish all advertising, of any intentional sort, of intercollegiate contests; (4) Eliminate as much as possible intersectional contests--so far as this is compatible with playing, opponents of equal strength. The matter of subsifized athletes, clean playing, professional coaching, and the so-called "tramp" athlete, are not problems which can be successfully dealt with by rule; no college need have any of these if it does not so choose...
...something must be done to preserve America and American ideals, let it be done--and done openly and honorably with exclusion for none and justice for all. Only by clean and upright means Ian any lasting good be accomplished...
...they know are ignoble. It is to their credit that most of them have sense enough as well as courage enough to stand against it. We believe the great body of alumni will approve this stand and that it will also have the approval of all the lovers of clean sport whose good opinion is worth having
...There are two things that every university can and ought to do to create a higher tone in athletics. The first is that every university. . . . must make absolutely sure that its representatives stand for clean sport on every athletic field. . . We at Princeton wish above everything else in our athletic relations to other universities that it may be said of our teams "There is a body of clean sportsmen.' . . . We must be sure here at Princeton that we have absolutely unquestioned amateurs on our teams. There should not be any subsidizing of athletics . . . ." All this is pertinent, and preventative steps...