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Show Sportsmanship Is Myth in Heat of Competition "Sportsmanship Is a myth," write! W. O. McGeehan In College Humor. "After a quarter of a century of peering peer-ing Intently at various sports, amateur and professional, I am unable to recall re-call one Instance of what we would call 's-portsmanship.' By that, I mean an exhibition of chivalry or generosity in the heat of competition. "In football, for example, an Intercollegiate Inter-collegiate sport which should be tilled with tiie spirit of friendliness and sportsmanship, it has come to be that victory is just as essential as the victory in professional baseball. There is no chivalry to the injured iu a football game. If a coach has a player play-er with an injured left shoulder he will send him into the game with his right shoulder very ostentatiously bandaged. By this subterfuge he hopes tc have the men who are interested In putting this athlete out of business for the afternoon concentrate ou the shoulder that is not hurt. "Of a game like football you would expect the development of a super-sportsmanship; super-sportsmanship; yet a dozen sets of universities in the United States have severed athletic relations because of football results." |