Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Baker, '86, and Rogers, '87, ran the 110 yards dash recently in 11 1.2 seconds. This ties the amateur record...
...Yale does not win in the annual boat race with Harvard this year it will not be for lack of work and professional coaching. Last year the crew had only amateur instruction, and not so much of that as they needed, while their rivals certainly enjoyed much professional advice, no matter how they got it. Yale's defeat, therefore, left her sore - and this year John R. Chainey, of London, a professional oarsman, is instructing the 'varsity eight. So, if they don't have the genuine English stroke this year the blues never will How that will compare with Harvard...
...CRIMSON will place a nine in the field for the "amateur" contest this spring. J. A. Frye, '86, will be captain of the nine...
...CRIMSON congratulates itself upon having initiated a custom which bids fair to become permanent. Last year the "amateur championship" in base-ball was instituted, and for the first time in the history of the college definite regulations were drawn up to govern the contest. Although the whole affair was started as an experiment, it met with marked success, and the Base-Ball Association has recognized the value of the training obtained, having modelled the series of this year upon the lines of that instituted by the CRIMSON last spring. The fact that such a contest was needed is shown pretty...
Since the announcement in yesterday's paper that the H. U. B. B. C. will give cups to the champion "amateur" nine, already a number of nines have been organized, and the contest promises to be as interesting as that of last year when the CRIMSON offered cups...