Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times is very much grieved over the treatment that the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association has received at the hands of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the Yale News takes the same text and adopts as its own the complaints which are put into its mouth by the Spirit...
...first complaint is that certain factious spirits in the convention of the Amateur Association tried to prevent the colleges from entering men at the amateur meeting by fixing the date of the meeting for the fall instead of for June; but, as this proposition was defeated, we hardly see the necessity of crying out against it now. The chief complaint, however, relates to the representation which the Inter-Collegiate Association is allowed in the conventions of the Athletic Association. "They did not, it is true, refuse the petition of the I. C. A. A. for membership in their select number...
...facts of the case are that the Inter-Collegiate Association never asked for more than one vote and never desired more than one vote. Its object in asking for membership in the Amateur Association was not for the purpose of absorbing the association or controlling its meetings. It thought it would be desirable to effect if possible a community of feeling between the two associations, and so asked for an opportunity to be allowed to bring the views of college athletes before the convention of the Amateur Association. For this purpose one delegate is amply sufficient, and the College Association...
...matter, no one ought to miss seeing these particular theatricals. They are said, by those who have already seen them, to be among the best produced by college men for several years. One of the gentlemen who take part is deemed by many to be one of the best amateur actors seen in college for a number of years. We hope then, for the sake of the Boat Club, for the sake of the society which has spent so much time and labor on them, and for the sake of those who enjoy a good play, that there will...
Princeton succeeded in defeating an amateur nine from Philadelphia, Saturday, only by a score of 14 to 12, the Philadelphia nine having the lead, 12 to 10, until the ninth inning, when heavy batting by Wadleigh and Wilson saved the day for the collegians...