Word: sporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...status, as no formal order is attempted in fall rowing. The race will take place over the mile course at 3.45 promptly. After this contest organized University rowing will stop, but voluntary work in the tank will be resumed next week. The Freshmen who have elected rowing as a sport, however, must continue, reporting three times a week in the tank for their compulsory exercise requirement...
...seems to simmer down to the fact that in present-day college athletics and in football particularly, the winning of victories has become more of a business than a sport. The detail in management; the minuteness of coaching necessary to the success of an eleven; the sometimes exaggerated publicity; secret practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing...
Football, more than other sport be longs to the colleges; the line between hard fighting and dirty fighting is too close to contest the game to professionals...
...professionalization of the game would indubliably mean the ruin of what is now the most glorious sport of our country. It cannot be too strongly guarded against and effectively discouraged...
...other 218, or about 36 percent of the class, are required to comply with the regulation established in 1919 by the University, providing that all Freshmen not taking part in organized sport or in equitation must exercise regularly three times a week. These men are divided into squads by the Department of Physical Education, and are now exercising as follows: swimming 45, tennis 115, handball 25, gymnasium class 16, squash...