Sportsmanship

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Sportsmanship

• Sportsmanship is probably the clearest and most
  popular expression of morals
• Henry C. Link

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Amos Alonzo Stagg

• Defined sportsmanship as a delightful fragrance
  that people will carry with them in their
  relations with fellow men

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Amos Alonzo Stagg

• Commandments of Sportsmanship
• Make your conduct a worthy example
• Dont drink intoxicants
• Dont gamble
• Dont use smutty language
• Dont tell dirty stories
• Dont associate with loose women

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What is sportsmanship

• 1926 national Sportsmanship Brotherhood
• Keep the rule
• Keep the faith with your comrades
• Keep yourself fit
• Keep you temper
• Keep your play free from brutality
• Keep pride under victory
• Keep stout heart in defeat
• Keep sound soul and a clean mind in a healthy body

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Written Rules of the Game

• Absence of rules is found where?
• Do we really need sports officials?
• Do we really need so many rules football
• Does anyone really understand all the rules?

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Constitutive Rules

• Rules that guide play within a specific game
• Used to equalize play
• Length of game
• Number of players
• Eligibility of players
• Give structure to sport

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Proscriptive Rules

• Forbid specific actionsare associated with
  injury
• Pitchers throwing a batters heads
• Line chop blocking
• Had these actions occurred outside of sport,
  people would have been arrestedGive examples

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Sportsmanship Rules

• Participants honor the spirit of the rules
• Preclude winning at all cost
• Used to prevent ethically questionable and
  violent conduct

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Fair Play

• Quote
• It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to
  play under a rule which assumes that players
  intend to trip, and push their opponents and to
  behave lake cads of the the most unscrupulous
  kind
• - James McIntosh, 1891, on the game of soccer

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Fair Play

• Bag of Virtues
• Applies virtues or noteworthy behaviors to sport
• Handshaking, congrats
• Also, penalty minutes and verbal intimidation
• Sport teaches compassion, fairness,
  sportsmanship, and integrityDo you agree?

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Fair Play

• Fair Play as Play
• Sport is not part of everyday life
• Sport vs. athletics (contest)
• Sport is freely chosen and enjoyment is the goal
• Do you agree?

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Fair Play

• Fair Play as a Contest
• Sport is a test or contest that fair play is
  derived
• If one cheats they cant win
• Fair play is the absence of cheating
• Do you agree?

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Fair Play

• Fair Play as Respect for the Rules
• Fair play requires players show strict observance
  to the written rules
• Games exist and are defined by their rules
• What about the spit ball, holding in
  football?..others?
• The old smart player?

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Fair Play

• Fair Play as a Contract
• Contract is created by the rules of the game
• The rules are those accepted and practiced by
  the participants
• Game is played to the refereeie holding is legal
  if not seen
• Do you agree?

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Fair Play

• Fair Play as a Respect for the Game
• Respect time honored customs and the history of
  the game
• Stealing with a big leadwhat happens next?
• Running up the score
• Golf gentlemens game

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