Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record that the Yale team was enabled to win the championship of 1888 by forfeit, the Harvard faculty refusing to allow the eleven to play at New York, and the Yale management refusing to allow its players to go elsewhere. It has always been supposed that a standard of sportsmanship exists among the college men, different from that which prevails among the professionals, but such a feeling has not been observable in this foot-ball controversy. The Harvard foot-ball management had not the least inkling that the faculty of that institution had any idea of placing them...