Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of Coach Henry Lamar and his two-man staff, who make "box--don't fight!" the password in the third-floor punch-palace in the Blockhouse...
...game theory" of boxing is what Lamar teaches...
...indoctrinate everyone coming here with the idea they're not supposed to hurt somebody, or to beat somebody," Lamar said yesterday. "They're supposed to learn boxing...
Boxing at Harvard, it must be remembered, is an intramural sport. It had Varsity status until 1933, Lamar said, at which time "we ran out of opponents." Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, M.I.T., and other large schools discontinued ring-wars and the College followed suit...
Beginners truly start from the ground up. Footwork is first, Lamar explained. Then he teaches a single blow, the block for that blow, and the counter-punch. Garbed in a black-wool outfit that looks like a cross between Dr. Dentines and Gay Nineties bathing togs, he stands on a podium at one end of the room and drawls instructions to the class. He then demonstrates each blow and its ramifications, and lets the boys try it out on one another...