Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides shifting Stephens to his new position. Yovicsin has moved Robert Yates from his post as assistant to freshman coach Henry N. Lamar, to the vacant spot left by Serafino D. Fazio. Fazio has decided to join the football staff of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh...
Entering the third and final round in the 175-pound bout, Army's undefeated J.B. Wells held a commanding point lead over Harvard's Gordie Robertson. Wells could have turned his back and run around the ring for two minutes and still won," Lamar recalls...
...Lamar blames the high-handed recruiting practices of many colleges for the sport's demise. "Golden Glove Champions with as many as 100 bouts under their belts would be placed in the ring with inexperienced fighters," he says. Serious injuries rarely occurred, but spectators and officials became disturbed at the one-sided affairs...
...boxing at Harvard and at most other colleges has consisted of a single annual intramural event. Interest in the sport revived during World War II, when intramural boxing became a required activity for all Harvard undergraduates, but waned quickly. All that remains of boxing today are the classes Henry Lamar teaches every February and the three-day House tournament, which begins today...
...House tournament is the highlight of the winter sport season for a great many Harvard sports fans, who still throng the IAB for the final bouts. And though Henry Lamar insists that intercollegiate boxing is dead and buried, who's to deny that if Harvard challenged Yale to an annual match, the Ivy League might generate a pugilistic renaissance in America...