Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to these the association will offer engraved cups for the nine winning the so-called "amateur college championship," provided that there are at least four entries If there are eight or more entries two sets of cups will be offered, for first and second places Any member of the University who has never played on, or been a substitute for, either the University or class nines shall be eligible for such "amateur" nines...
...annual races of the American Association of Amateur Oarsmen will take place on the Hudson during the Albany bi-centennial celebration the last week in July...
...Yorks have made arrangements for six games in April with amateur clubs. On the first with the Manhattan College nine, on the 19th and 20th with the Princeton College nine, and on the 22nd and 23rd with Yale...
...University of Pennsylvania still possesses several winners in former inter-collegiate contests. Farries of the Medical School won the mile run in 1884 and 1885, with a record of 4 minutes, 40 seconds. Page, '88, holds the amateur championship of America in the running high jump, with the tremendous record of 6 feet, 1-4 in. Brenton, '88, is said to have cleared 21 feet, 4 inches, in the broad jump. Kohler, '87, is the rival of Renton of the University of Pennsylvania in the bicycle race. As it is probable that neither Hamilton of Yale nor Dean of Harvard...
Although not yet definitely settled, it is almost certain that the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen will be rowed on the Hudson River, near Albany...