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...Henry N. Lamar, coach of Harvard boxing for more than four decades, died of cancer Saturday...
...Lamar came to Harvard in 1931, ostensibly "just to help out for a few weeks," but he stayed until June 1972, when 500 admirers jammed the Harvard Club at his retirement. He held the longest tenure of any boxing coach in Harvard's history...
...Lamar also served as football coach between 1943, and 1945, and as the junior varsity football coach during the late...
Sportswriters, players, and fans referred to Lamar as "the gentleman coach of Harvard boxing...
Current Crimson boxing Coach Tommy Rawson, who met Lamar in the late 1920s and worked with him at Harvard, spoke of him in glowing terms. "He was an outstanding gentleman and gamesman," Rawson said...