Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Robinson, '90, leads in the contest for the gold medal offered by the Athletic Yale Association to that member of the University who shall gain the greatest number of points during the year in Yale games and in all open amateur meetings...
...CRIMSON'S compilation of the records made by amateur athletes in 1888, in the issue of Wednesday, several mistakes were made which we take this opportunity of correcting. It was stated that at the intercollegiate games in New York last May, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record...
...leading amateur club of this State, the Beacons, will probably be unable to put a nine in the field next season. The loss of this club will be felt here at Harvard, as the club has, in past years, been one of the 'varsity nine's best opponents...
...meeting last May comparatively few records were broken, the account of the work that was done during the summer, at home and abroad, by college athletes, will have a prominent place in the annals of athletic sports. The leading athletic clubs have divided themselves into two associations, the National Amateur Athletic Association and the New Amateur Athletic Union. Both of these associations have held several well-contested field meetings during the year, and the results of the meetings go far towards proving conclusively that the American athletes are superior to those from England and Ireland. Fewer records were made...
...handicap meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, held last Saturday in the Madison Square Garden, N. Y., was, without doubt, in all respects the most successful athletic meeting ever held in this country. Representatives from all the well-known athletic clubs, together with numerous college athletes, took part in the games, and the large number of entries-about 700-made it necessary to hold the preliminary heats in the afternoon from two to six, and the finals from eight till near midnight. A few innovations were made, as lacrosse and base-ball games were played under...