Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventeen years John LaRowe has been coach of boxing at Virginia; during that time his teams have won the Southern Conference Championship every time that they have entered; and for six years ending last February they had not lost a single meet. This is the team which the Crimson boxing team faces when they travel South tomorrow to Charlottesville for the climax game of the season...
...same Cavallers by a smothering score of 65-0 in the Stadium last fall. The excuse of the Southerners after this football defeat was that all football was down in Charlottesville was a method of keeping the boxers in trim. Boxing is a major sport, the major sport, at Virginia; and 6000 people are expected to troop in Saturday night to read in their elaborate programs the biographies of the Harvard boxers, hoping they are about to witness southern honor gaining a sweet revenge...
Like most top-notch coaches, Henry Lamar was a star in his sport long before he thought of coaching. For two years in succession before he was out of Virginia he was the National Amateur Champion; in his collegiate boxing at the Charlottesville institution he knocked out most of his opponents, frequently doubled up to box twice in a meet in two different classes. As a professional pugilist he was also a success, and had dropped but one bout when he decided to accept Harvard's offer and take up a more secure if less spectacular mode of life...
...last year he had proved conclusively that he could teach his sport as well as do it; many men joined his beginners class to learn how to use the gloves; and his team was one of the best in the East, for it was they who toppled Virginia from the crown as an undefeated team which they had enjoyed for six years...
...annual matches with the Coast Guard Academy and Virginia are the tops of the season for Lamar's men. The greeting of the hosts is warm, the competition keen and clean. These two schools have not yet gone in for that practice of getting in ringers, a practice that Lamar feels is rulning Intercollegiate boxing. "Unlike other schools," he says, "Virginia has none of the former amateur boxers which are being grabbed up by most of the other schools. If this were the case everywhere, boxing would rest far more easily in the colleges. The main trouble is this loading...