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American Sports and American Life
Tunis, John R. | June 25, 1930 issue

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Everyone who gets behind the scenes of American sporting life must be struck with the fact that there is amazingly little real sport left in the U.S. today. Over-organization has throttled the real spirit of sport, the feeling of the game for the game's sake. It has substituted in place of this spirit not merely a desire for victory, but an alarming insistence on winning. There is precious little idealism of any sort at present when a squad is asked to go out and die for a $15,000-a-year head coach. The American attitude toward athletics is simply a part of the general attitude toward life in this country, the belief that civilization consists chiefly in bigger and better Buicks.

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SPORTS; ATHLETICS; IDEALISM; CONDUCT of life; RECREATION; UNITED States
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