Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seven ourt of the twenty-four first prizes which Harvard has won in the four years she has held the cup, has won first prize in every jump on the I. C. A. A. programme: running high, running broad, standing high, standing broad and pole vault, holding the best amateur record in the world for the standing high jump. Mr. G. B. Morison has run in nearly every athletic and gymnastic meeting while he was mile run twice in the I. C. A. A. meetings and the general excellence prize for gymnastics three years. Mr. C. H. Kip was beaten...
...Intercollegiate meeting. Mr. Goodwin again lowered his half-mile record at our spring meeting making the distance in 2 min., 4-5 sec. Mr. Athkinson made record of 5 ft., 8 1-2 in., at the I. C. A. A. meeting. Mr. Atkinson really jumped 5 ft., by an amateur in America but the stupidity of one of the judges cost him an inch in the record...
...near future. The victory practically gives Harvard the precedence over Yale in athletic sports for the year to come. So crushing a defeat can hardly be retrieved in less time, even by so great a college as that at New Haven. The crew that has won for Harvard the "amateur champion ship of America" will not soon be forgotten...
...York Herald says, editorially ; "The ease with which Harvard defeated the Columbia eight a few days ago-a crew that have demonstrated on other waters their excellence-and the overwhelming defeat which she has now administered to the Yale navy easily entitle her to the practical amateur championship of this country. * * A careful review of the race makes it clear that Harvard has at present a crew not alone the best in existence in American Amateur circles, but one that is superior to any she has had in years...
...Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...