Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their previous attitude toward the question. Of the game itself it is perhaps best to make little criticism. Our team certainly has more reason for pride than for regret. It is by far the best eleven Harvard has ever put into the field, and had it met an amateur undergraduate team, like itself, would very likely have won. It may, however, well be doubted whether Harvard beaten has not a more honorable record than Princeton victorious. But enough of what is passed; there is work ahead which we must undertake. Harvard has stood foremost this year in an endeavor...
...Dohm, of Princeton has been making some very fast time this summer in the quarter and half-mile runs. In the N. Y. A. A. half-mile run he made the remarkable time of 1 minute, 55 1-4 seconds, thus breaking the amateur record of 1 minute, 55 2-5 seconds held by Myers. On June 27th, Dohm ran in the N. Y. A. A. quarter mile handicap, coming in second, seven seconds behind the winner who had six yards start. Dohm's time was 48 seconds and a fraction. On August 19, at Asbury Park, Dohm took second...
...road race Saturday afternoon was the last event of the most prosperous season in the Bicycle club's history. Bicycling has never before been so popular nor the interest in it so general as during the past year. There have been two club races, two races with Technology. an amateur race meeting and several hare and hound runs. All of these events have been well carried out. The energy shown in the arrangement of so many racing events is deserving of praise. Bicycling now hold a prominent place in college athletics and bids fair to retain...
...meeting held last Thursday on the grounds of the New Jersey Athletic club at Bergen Point, to decide the Eastern amateur athletic championship of the Amateur Athletic Union, three events were run which must greatly interest Harvard. They were as follows: Two hundred and twenty yards dash-Final heat won by James P. Lee, Harvard College and New York Athletic Club, 23 1 5 seconds; C. H. Sherrill, Yale University and New York Athletic Club second by two feet...
...American Amateur championship games to be held under the auspices of the A. A. U. have been postponed until June...