Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amateur Athletic Union will hold its first championship in-door meeting of this season on Wednesday evening, November 21st in Madison Square Garden, at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Madison Avenue, New York. The meeting will be open to all who signify their desire to take part, and who send their entrance fee of one dollar for each event to Otto Ruhl, Secretary of the A. A. U., No. 104 West Fifty-fifth street, New York, before the 14th of November. For each event there will be three prizes consisting of gold, silver or bronze medals. The events...
Sixty yards dash, 440 yds run, 220 yds. hurdle, one and a half mile run, two mile bicycle race, one mile walk, one-half mile novice race. All the above events except the novice race will be handicaps, and will be contested under the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union. Gold and silver medals will be given to the winners...
...amateur football eleven, composed of college men has been formed, and Mr. Burnham, '90, elected captain. A challenge has been issued to the Technology freshmen...
...little more vigor into the team and make the men trying for the team begin practice at once. The Princeton team has been hard at work ever since the fall term began, and have even gone so far as to play two or three match games with strong amateur clubs. Unless our lacrosse players are anxious to compete next spring heavily handicapped, it behooves them to give up the lack-a-daisical spirit which they have hitherto shown and practice daily from now until Thanksgiving...
...athletic association of Yale has offered a twenty-five dollar gold medal to that member of the university who shall gain the greatest number of points during the year in all amateur atlhetic games. A first prize will count five points, second prize three, and third prize...