To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

Oscar Mathisen, five-time ISU world champion and three-time European champion, renounced his amateur status in 1916 and travelled to America, where he won many races but was beaten by Bobby McLean of Chicago, four-time American champion, in one of the races.

Also in 1961, the year of her father's death, Rudolph won the James E. Sullivan Award, an award for the top amateur athlete in the United States, and visited President John F. Kennedy.

While teaching he also played amateur football for local teams and was soon signed up to Manchester United as a professional, playing his first game in 1936 and being part of the team that won promotion to the First Division in 1938.

Following in his father's athletic footsteps, John Jr. won in 1947 the James E. Sullivan Award as the country's top amateur athlete.

Eastman Kodak's 16 mm format won the amateur market and is still widely in use today, mainly in the Super 16 variation, which remains popular with professional filmmakers.

Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest.

The Barret School of Irish Dancing has produced some of Ireland's best Irish dancers, and the local theatre group, The Puddle Alley Players, has won several awards over the years in amateur dramatic competitions.

Fernando Vargas ( born December 7, 1977 ) is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.

A 7-dan amateur will have won three national events, and will be effectively of lower-ranked pro standard.

The Grises is also a Double A class amateur baseball team that has won one championship ( 1951 ) and four time runner-ups in ( 1950, 1960, 1965 and 1967 ).

* Don Lash ( 1912 – 1994 ), track and field champion who won the 1938 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States, graduated from Auburn High School in 1933.

* Don Lash, champion long-distance runner who won the 1938 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States, was born in Bluffton in 1912.

In addition, he has won over 90 major amateur titles, and is a black belt in judo and sombo.

* Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer who almost won the 1954 Masters Tournament, member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

He began boxing in amateur competitions and, by 1924, won Germany's national amateur title in the light heavyweight division.

Zarate, considered along with rival Wilfredo Gómez to be among the better punchers of the lighter divisions, had an amateur record of 33 wins and 3 losses, with 30 knockout wins, and he won the Mexican Golden Gloves, or Guantes De Oro, in 1969.

As an amateur, he allegedly won all 100 of his fights, 86 by knockout, but this record was apparently fabricated for publicity purposes.

William Warren Barbour, who won the American and Canadian amateur heavyweight championship in 1910 and 1911, was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett's choice to be " the great white hope ," but Barbour declined to take up the mantle.

He was a keen amateur boxer and won the Irish junior middleweight title in 1944.

Corley was an amateur standout, and won the National Golden Gloves Light Welterweight Championship in 1995.

Jones ' involvement with the gospel choir occurred after she won an amateur contest at Chicago's Regal Theater where she sang " I Can't Face the Music ".

60 speed became the de facto standard for amateur radio RTTY operation because of the widespread availability of equipment at that speed and the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) restrictions to only 60 speed from 1953 to 1972.

The team that finished last in 1972 – 73 received the right to pick first in the 1973 amateur draft and the Islanders selected junior superstar defenseman Denis Potvin, who had been touted " as the next Bobby Orr " when he was 13.

At the same time, officials in Canada and the Soviet Union negotiated an arrangement that would see the top players of each nation – amateur or professional – play in an eight game " Summit Series " in September 1972 between the world's two greatest hockey nations.

Ryun's final season as an amateur in 1972 included the third-best mile of his career ( at the time, also the third fastest in history: a 3: 52. 8 at Toronto, Canada on July 29 ), a 5, 000-meter career best ( 13: 38. 2 at Bakersfield, CA on May 20 ), and an inspiring win in the 1, 500 meters at the U. S. Olympic Trials.

He left amateur athletics after 1972 and for the next two years ran professionally on the International Track Association circuit.

He was drafted by the Twins in the 26th round ( 596th overall ) of the 1972 amateur draft and decided to turn professional, though he was 15 credits short of finishing his college degree.

In addition to the amateur court in St. Petersburg, The American Jai-Alai Foundation whose president Victor Valcarce was a pelotari at Dania Jai-Alai ( MAGO # 86 ) and was considered the best " pelota de goma " player in the world, sponsors ( in North Miami Beach, Florida ) the only indoor air conditioned cancha, ( once owned by World Jai-Alai as a school which in 1972 produced the greatest American pelotari, Joey Cornblit # 37 ) that is still open with free lessons from some of the sport's best.

Whitt was selected in the 15th round of the 1972 amateur draft by the Boston Red Sox, and he made his major league debut on September 12, 1976, pinch hitting for Carlton Fisk in the seventh inning, as Whitt grounded out.

Eckersley was drafted by the Cleveland Indians out of Washington High School of Fremont, California, in the third round of the 1972 amateur draft, and made his Major League debut on April 12, 1975.

Charles Doyle " Charlie " Haas II ( born March 27, 1972 ) is an American professional wrestler and former collegiate amateur wrestler.

After 1972, Milburn turned to professional track but resumed amateur competition in 1980 and was ranked fifth in the world.

It went out of print in 1972 and is much sought-after today by amateur scientists and collectors.

Many events were still reserved to the amateur players between 1968 and 1972.

In 1972, under political pressure from the Paris city council, the club split into professional and amateur sides.

Joshua " J. D ." Wilkes ( born April 18, 1972, Baytown, Texas ), and now a resident of Paducah, Kentucky, is an American visual artist, musician, and amateur filmmaker.

Three other games were played in Olympic Football where only players with amateur status could represent West Germany, like the young Uli Hoeneß who delayed his pro career in 1972.

He left the faculty of technology of Keio University in 1972, and joined an amateur band named NOA as a keyboard player, emulating the music of Pink Floyd.

In 1972 it received an amateur production at Rugby Theatre with Bridget Watson as Mrs Dale and Harry Roberts as her husband the doctor.

Ward was signed by the Twins as an amateur free agent in 1972 and made his debut in the 1979 season.

Its headmaster from 1938 to 1972 was the notable Latin scholar Thomas Muir, who was also an accomplished amateur geologist.

The SCCA created a " showroom stock " class for amateur club racing in 1972.

He retained his amateur status in order to be able to participate in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

He joined the Dubbo Ducks amateur swimming team in 1972 and called rugby league games on a part-time basis at 2DU in Dubbo.

In 1972, when the World Hockey Association was beginning to take form, some teams were more focused on the amateur draft that they stopped paying attention to other issues ( mainly the WHA raiding NHL rosters ) and were spending their time preparing for the draft.