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...years during the war. And with only one exception there has been no big title-holder from Harvard since the '30s. "It's not that the boys aren't as good as they used to be, they just have had no initiative since the end of intercollegiate competition," Henry Lamar, present trainer of College pugilists, says...
Bullitt was a freshman when intercollegiate boxing disappeared, but he want outside the College to get competition. As one of Lamar's proteges, he won the 135-pound championship of the Junior New England A.A.U.'s, the New England Open, and the New England Golden Gloves during his college years. "You should have seen Johnny's left hook in those days,' Lamar comments. "You couldn't stand...
Those men were the "punch" of the team in 1935 that defeated the University of Virginia. Virginia in those years was the Notre Dame of the college boxing world. That was also the year Lamar coached the Crimson to the Eastern championship and a perfect season...
...Lamar was no mean boxer when he came to the College as official coach of the newly established boxing team in 1931. Coming from the University of Virginia, he twice won the heavyweight title of the National A.A.U...
...short time in the twenties he fought as a pro around the Boston area, winning 40 fights and losing only one. Lamar is now Massachusetts State Boxing Commissioner...