Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...council of the University Athletic Club of New York, which has charge of the annual Yale-Princeton football game, met yesterday and decided that the holding of the game in New York was injurious to amateur sport...
...movement has been started by the Board of Trade of New London, Conn., to establish an annual amateur regatta similar in nature to the English Henley Regatta, to take place on the Thames at New London. A committee has been appointed by the Board of Trade to put the matter before the college and amateur rowing interests of the country and if possible to establish the movement on a firm footing...
...proposed to have the regatta under the direct control of a Board of Stewards which shall represent the interests of the collegiate and amateur athletic club crews of the United States...
...believe that Harvard discountenances such trips as strongly perhaps, as Mr. Whitney himself, and he should hesitate before connecting the name of Harvard with such semi-professional "junketings." As a matter of fact Harvard has not for a number of years, never we believe since the difference between the amateur and the professional was clearly defined, sent out such team after the regular football season was ended...
...primarily the affairs of the undergraduates, that the Athletic Committee is in a way responsible to them, and that they therefore have a right to know what it is doing in all important matters. They realize however that intercollegiate athletics are not conducted as frankly and openly as true amateur sport demands they should be, and concede that a certain amount of secrecy is unfortunately still necessary. But they believe that they should have been informed, for example, of the pending negotiations with Yale, and should have some knowledge of the progress of those negotiations which concern them so nearly...