Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college men with professional teams, although excellent practice, as it teaches them to be cool, to eatch surely and to use their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits is quite another thing and it is here that professional aid always tells. It is absurd to believe that the practice given to batsmen by an amateur pitcher can accomplish the same results...
Harvard is to be represented at the meeting of delegates from the Amateur Lacrosse Clubs in New York, Saturday, to make arrangements for sending an American team to England...
...winter games of the Union Amateur Athletic Club took place last evening, in the Institute Rink, Boston. Several students entered and a large part of the college went in to witness the sport. Harvard met with more than its share of success. Out of over forty entries, five were Harvard men, and three of these won first prizes...
...games of the Union Amateur Athletic Club occur this evening, in the Institute Rink, Boston. A number of college men are expected to be present to back our various entries. Considering the number of men and their known records some very interesting sport is anticipated...
...Boston Herald suggests an advisory committee, composed of graduates, who are themselves interested in amateur athletics as the best remedy for the failing fortunes of the Harvard nine...