For example, amateur athletes in sports such as basketball, baseball or football are regarded as having a lower level of ability than professional athletes.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

People who enjoy playing sports may be amateur athletes who play recreationally.

* 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian amateur sports executive ( d. 1942 )

Along with hurling and camogie, Gaelic football is one of the few remaining strictly amateur sports in the world, with players, coaches, and managers prohibited from receiving any form of payment.

The city has both professional and amateur sports teams, and a number of venues where they are based.

* Sports Racer Series – An amateur series for small engined, many motorcycle type engines, sports racing cars, run for the first time in 2010.

Tyus retired from amateur sports after the 1968 Olympics.

The team received attention when it chose teal as its primary color, setting off a sports fashion craze in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with many pro and amateur clubs soon following with teal in their color schemes.

Brookings is home to only one amateur sports team.

He represented his school in these sports and played football for amateur teams from Rawdon and Horsforth.

* 31 March — the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States ( IAAUS ) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States, including revisions to American football rules that legalise the forward pass.

Telford is home to a variety of established amateur, semi-pro and professional sports clubs.

Initially used in professional sports, the term is now also commonly used in amateur sports, as well as in other completely unrelated fields of endeavor such as business and music.

The Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) (, ( CLG )) is an Irish and international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders.

Women's sports include amateur and professional competitions in virtually all sports.

Throughout the mid-twentieth century, Communist countries dominated many Olympic sports, including women's sports, due to state-sponsored athletic programs that were technically regarded as amateur.

Spectator sports may be professional sports or amateur sports.

He and Russell Porter are generally credited with having initiated the amateur telescope making movement in the US.

He is considered one of " the big three behind the amateur telescope making movement in America ".

The first climber to actually make bouldering his primary specialty ( in the mid 1950s ) and to advocate its acceptance as a legitimate sport not restricted to a particular area was John Gill, a mathematician and amateur gymnast who found the challenge and movement of bouldering enjoyable.

The initial interest in letters stemmed from his correspondence with his cousin Phillips Gamwell but even more important was his involvement in the amateur journalism movement, which was initially responsible for the enormous number of letters Lovecraft produced.

Following the establishment of a definition for an amateur athlete at the 1894 Congress, he would continue to argue that this definition should be amended as necessary, and as late as 1909 would argue that the Olympic movement should develop its definition of amateurism gradually.

Known as Der Wandervogel (" migratory bird "), the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping.

The concept of zines clearly had an ancestor in the amateur press movement ( a major preoccupation of H. P. Lovecraft ), which would in its turn cross-pollinate with the subculture of science fiction fandom in the 1930s.

His concepts were first taken seriously only by the amateur rocketry movement in Germany, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR-" Spaceflight Society "), centered on Hermann Oberth and his co-workers.

A few bands enjoyed chart success in the skiffle craze, including The Chas McDevitt Group, Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys and The Vipers, but the main impact of skiffle was as a grassroots amateur movement, particularly popular among working class males, who could cheaply buy, improvise or build their own instruments and who have been seen as reacting against the drab austerity of post-war Britain.

This non-centralized movement has given birth to science fiction fanzines ( and amateur press associations ), science fiction conventions, the Hugo Awards ( and various imitators / derivatives ), filk music, " fan funds " such as the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund, and a variety of other institutions, jargon and customs.

The first songs traditionally referred to as bard songs are thought to be written in late 1930s and early 1940s, and the very existence of the genre is traditionally originated from the amateur activities of the Soviet intelligentsia, namely mass backpacking movement and the students ' song movement of 1950s and 1960s.

In the same period, the movement of KSP ( Kluby Samodeyatelnoy Pesni – amateur song fan clubs ) emerged, providing the bards with highly educated audience, and up to the end of 1980s being their key promotion engine.

Indeed, in 1906 Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

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The Walloon cultural movement includes the Union Culturelle Wallonne, an organization of over 200 amateur theatre circles, writers ' groups, and school councils.

The importance of this work saw Hohmann become a leading figure in Germany's amateur rocketry movement in the late 1920s, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR-" Spaceflight Society ").

He also joined Germany's amateur rocket movement, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR-" Society for Space Travel ") which was centered on Oberth.

Since the 1950s, there has been a resurgence of interest, especially among artists, in the experimental use of letterpress printing, paper-making and hand-bookbinding in producing small editions of ' artists ' books ', and among amateur ( and a few professional ) enthusiasts for traditional printing methods and for the production ' values ' of the private press movement.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.

" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

In the late 1800s, amateur microscopy became a popular hobby in the United States and Europe.

A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing himself.

By the late 1950s, new organizations focused on amateur radioteletype started to appear.

During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.

A late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on January 31, 1793, to much praise for its " Grandeur, Simplicity, and Beauty " by Washington, along with praise from Jefferson.

Until the 1970s, literary critics dismissed Thoreau's late pursuits as amateur science and philosophy.

In late 1995, he appeared in Devious, an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of The War Games and before the start of Spearhead From Space, which shows an interim ( between second and third ) Doctor played by Tony Garner being told he was " never meant to be the Doctor " and that the third, played by Jon, will complete him.

Cassette culture, or the cassette underground, refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes.

The original format for magnetic tape sound reproduction was the reel-to-reel tape recorder, first available in the U. S. in the late 1940s but too expensive and bulky to be practical for amateur home use until well into the 1950s.

Cabot boasts a movie theater and larger city library built in the late 1990s, plus a growing number of restaurants, amateur sporting venues and community organizations.

He put together a string of 30 straight competitive amateur victories in the late 70s, mostly in his home state Florida, culminating in a win at the Oceanside Nationals in June, 1979.

What came to be known as the " MJ-12 papers " – detailing a secret UFO committee allegedly involving Vannevar Bush – first appeared on a roll of film in late 1984 in the mailbox of television documentary producer ( and amateur ufologist ) Jaime Shandera.

The Electro-Theremin, often called the Tannerin, is an electronic musical instrument developed by trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell in the late 1950s to produce a sound to mimic that of the theremin.

Subsidy republication as late as 1995 by Pyrotek Inc., an amateur rocketry supply house.

After over half a century of amateurism, the amateur status of the sport began to be displaced by growing professionalism in the late 1970s.

Sometime late in 1915 or in 1916 he proposed to the company's president, Edward J. Nally, that the company develop a " Radio Music Box " for the " amateur " market of radio enthusiasts.

After an amateur career where he won various titles, he turned professional in the late 1970s, and has boxed the likes of Robin Blake, former world champion Roger Mayweather, Hector Macho Camacho and Carlos Bolillo Gonzalez, the last two of which Baltazar fought for world titles.