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Boxing coach Henry Lamar, mentor here since 1931 and also Massachusetts State Boxing Commissioner, has not taken an active role in the drive, but favors the move without qualification...
...Coach Lamar said that, in addition to these four Colleges, he had also received a letter of inquiry from Yale. He added that M.I.T. might also be willing to pick up the sport again...
...Lamar himself, he admits, as two-time National A.A.U. Champion in his college career at Virginia, probably, though innocently, helped to bring about the downfall of intercollegiate boxing. However, he insists, the only opponents he was ever permitted to fight were other A.A.U. leaders. A Pan-American athlete in 1925, Lamar became Boxing Commissioner in Massachusetts in 1953 and was recently reappointed to serve for another three years in that post...
Massachusetts Boxing Commissioner Henry N. Lamar, University Boxing coach since 1931, yesterday agreed with Botsford that if a college like Harvard in the East did reinstate boxing as a team sport there might eventually be enough competition to form an Ivy League in boxing...
...Lamar added, however, that he was not considering filing any petition himself to the Faculty Committee on Athletics...