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For many years, the Boston Athletic Association Indoor Games, not the Boston Marathon, was the Association's premier event. It attracted top athletes, including Cornelius Warmerdam, Wes Santee, and Ron Delany. However, as the years went on, attendance declined (dropping from 13,645 in 1960 to 9,008 in 1971) and overhead costs increased, making ...
George Burnap Morison (May 9, 1861 – January 20, 1932) was an American sportsman who was the president of the Boston Athletic Association from 1903 to 1915. Early life [ edit ]
First organized by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) in 2011, the event represented a further expansion of the group's road running calendar; building on the long-running Boston Marathon, the B.A.A. Half Marathon and B.A.A. 5K were launched in 2001 and 2009 respectively. [4]
The Boston Athletic Association has updated its qualifying times for the world's oldest annual marathon, asking most prospective competitors to run a 26.2-mile race five minutes faster than in ...
In 1946, Boston Athletic Association president Walter A. Brown appointed Cloney to the unpaid part-time position of meet and race director. [2] In 1964 he succeeded Brown as president of the B.A.A. [4] During Cloney's tenure with the B.A.A., the Boston Marathon grew from a small event that took little planning into a near full-time job. [4]
The Boston Athletic Association ice hockey team was an American amateur ice hockey team sponsored by the Boston Athletic Association that played in the American Amateur Hockey League, United States Amateur Hockey Association, and Eastern Amateur Hockey League. The team won the AAHL title in 1916 and 1917 and the USAHA championship in 1923, and ...
George Walker Weld (1840–1905), youngest son of William Fletcher Weld and member of the Weld Family of Boston, was a founding member of the Boston Athletic Association, which is the organizer of the present-day Boston Marathon, and the financier of the Weld Boathouse, a landmark on the Charles River.
When Brown took over management of the Boston Arena in 1921, Kanaly succeeded him as athletic director of the B.A.A.. He held this position until 1935, when the club shut down. [ 2 ] When the club reopened, Kanaly served as its secretary, a position he held until he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1951.