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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of 1931, L. J. Conley, Harvard's head boxing coach, died and Lamar came to Cambridge to take his place. He coached the Varsity teams until boxing was abandoned as an intercollegiate sport in 1937, and since then has been teaching ring principles to Harvard pugilists...
Meanwhile, the football department has been keeping him busy in the fall. Although he made his niche on the canvas, his first love is football. "It's a funny thing," Lamar muses, "when I boxed they called me a football player and now that I coach football they call me a boxer...
Before the advent of Harlow, Lamar coached the Freshman line, and in 1935 Harlow shifted him to Jayvee coach. The next year he mentored the Freshman group that included Torby McDonald and Tom Healey, and in '37 was shifted back to the Jayvee post which he held until...
...Lamar fused the Freshman and Jayvee squads under the wartime rulings that allowed Freshmen to play on Varsity teams, and when Harlow joined the Navy in 1943, Lamar enjoyed two years as head coach of the highly informal eleven. Last year, after more time working with the Varsity line, he returned to his Freshman job. Today, he has been at Harvard longer than any other football coach...
...might be expected from a dozen years of association, Lamar is an ardent disciple of Dick Harlow. "I learned most of my football around here with Dick," he declares and even during his two year wartime stint as head coach, he still considered himself an assistant carrying out the master's principles...