Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stricter interpretation has been placed by the Amateur Athletic Union on the rule governing the eligibility of an athlete for its junior championships, and in future the junior title events will be open "to all registered amateur athletes who have not won a first place at any track and field or cross-country championship meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union, of the International Olympic Committee, or of any intercollegiate association, or of Canada, Australia, or any foreign country. The winner of any event in the junior championship shall be ineligible for further competition in the junior class...
...Harvard Club team will make its first appearance in the Amateur Hockey League of America at the Arena tonight, when it meets the Crescent Athletic Club team of new York. The game should make a first class test for the Harvard Club combination. Wigglesworth, the regular goal-tender, has been laid off with a cold, but will probably be on hand again, and the acquisition of Wanamaker has strengthened the line considerably. Saltonstall will probably play the other wing or centre, with Bikes who is slower on his skates than in former days, but makes up for that deficiency with...
...Rubien, secretary-treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union, has announced his annual selection of an All-American and an All-American College track and field team...
...addition to the addresses to be delivered much attention will undoubtedly livered much attention will undoubtedly be given to the question of summer baseball and amateur eligibility in general. There is no doubt that the cases of eligibility which arose last fall have brought college athletics to a point where some drastic action must be taken, if they are to be kept on the level of strict amateurism...
That summer baseball is the real cause of 90 per cent of the infractions of the college amateur rules can hardly be questioned. A good ball player is always in demand, especially among the summer hotels, which have been accustomed to maintain teams to play with other hotel teams in their vicinity. Few are the college undergraduates who care to or who can afford to play for nothing, and so they are tempted to break the rules and oftentimes fail to report to the college authorities or voluntarily withdraw from participation in college athletics. Some of the eastern college, notably...