Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union Boat Club has decided to give a spring regatta for the Eastern championship, open to all amateur clubs in New England, on Monday, June 18, when the tide on Charles River will serve between 9 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon. There will be racing in singles, doubles, fours and other classes of boats, and the intention is to have straightaway as well as turning races, the former to be at the National Association distance, 1 1/2 miles...
...Crawford, a prominent amateur bicyclist of Chicago, who broke the five mile record last month, is preparing to enter Yale, '86, next fall...
Under the heading, "Amateur Athletics," the New York Tribune of Monday used the following language : "The professional tendency of amateur athletics is much to be regretted. Harvard and Yale squabble for weeks over points of detail in regard to their annual race, and the impression produced upon the public is that each is trying its best to outwit and get the best of the other. Is this the spirit of generous emulation which should characterize gentlemen who engage in athletic sports? College base-ball clubs have been handled by professional trainers, and have obtained their practice by playing professional clubs...
...Hodge; Columbia, Atkins and Clements; New York University, Skerry and Kingsley; Harvard, Noble and Machado. An application was made by Yale to join the association, and it was granted. Messrs. Cottle and McDowell were admitted as delegates from that college. A constitution based on that of the National Amateur Lacrosse Association was discussed and adopted. The most important work before the convention was the adoption of a set of playing rules for the game. The old rules were considerably simplified, so as to adapt them to the conditions necessary for a college association. The chief changes made were...
...June, 1880, the meeting of the National Amateur Lacrosse Association at the Astor House, New York, gave a renewed impulse to the game. Harvard did not send a delegate, but was represented by Mr. Flannery of New York...