Possible Clues:

• Acceptable principle of a team award
• Man burdened by tool briefly, a saw
• Principle; assumption
• Truth found by a 27 team, deserving fellows
• Saw at 10.10 in the morning
• It's accepted as true without proof
• Man on American chopper saw ...
• Maxim, self-evident truth
• ''Crime does not pay,'' e.g.
• 'Good things come to those who wait,' e.g.