Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of entries for the winter sports of the Union Amateur Athletic Club, which will be held at the Institute Rink, next Wednesday evening, is larger this year than ever before.-Among the contestants are the following gentlemen from the Harvard Athletic Association; C. H. Atkinson, '85, running high jump; Wendell Baker, '86, quarter mile run; E. A. Thomson, '87, mile run, (handicap.) There will also be a tug-of-war team from the Harvard Law School...
...annual race by Cambridge University oarsmen for the Colquhoun silver sculls and amateur championship of the Cam, was rowed on November 17th, and was won by S. Swann, Trinity Hall, hon. sec. of the C. U. A. C., by one hundred yards, from W. K. Hardacre...
...following item is from the Yale News; the italics are our own: D. N. Baxter, '83, Harvard's champion heavyweight sparer, will enter for the amateur championship at New York in February Out-runner Bangs, who won the light-weight wrestling at the winter meetings last year, and also the cup for general wrestling, will try conclusions with the other light-weight wrestlers of the country at the same time...
...bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with the true spirit of genuine amateur sport...
...with individual athletic culture so with inter-collegiate contests; the student holds opinions about them differing diametrically from those of the faculty. He wishes to employ professional trainers; to arrange trial contests with the most formidable opponents, amateur or professional; to bring antagonists from afar; and to provide the necessary funds by holding the contest in cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes...