"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" (1965)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    I had posted 1967 from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.  Paper of Record has 14 January
> 1967 in THE SPORTING NEWS.
>    Did Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach coin it in 1965?  Or was it Leo
> Durocher, with "show me a good sportsman and I'll show you an idiot"?

Do either Newspaperarchive or Paperofrecord have anything early for "good
and gracious loser"?  That's the wording for the earliest Knute Rockne
attribution I have.

Fred Shapiro


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