Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This energy backed by an unflinching sincerity is the outstanding feature in the life of these two men. It made Roosevelt a great stateman, writer, scientist, sportsman, soldier. It made him the most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt...
...Talking to your opponents, if it falls short of being abusive or insulting, is not prohibited by the rules, partly because it ought not to be necessary and partly because no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker.' No good sportsman is ever guilty of cheap talk to his opponents...
...football code is different. The player who intentionally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and un sportsman like tactics, and, whether or not he escapes being penalized, he brings discredit to the good name of the game it is his duty as a player to uphold. You may meet players and even coaches who will tell you that it is all right to hold or otherwise violate the rules if you do not get caught. This is the code that obtains among sneak thieves and pick-pockets...
...true sportsman," he said, "takes little satisfaction in winning a race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...
...American and has had greater preparation. Moreover, this is still a new and essentially commercial country, where ideas are not so much in the minds and lives of men out of college as they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest in men and candidates than in movements is of doubtful validity. The Forums last year, in which prohibition, the war, the administration, and other such matters were heatedly discussed, tend to refute it; and public affairs as well as men are often the subject of argument at undergraduate...