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The first Boston Athletic Association Indoor Games were held on February 15, 1890 at Mechanics Hall. [1] 701 athletes entered the games, a number that "exceed[ed] that at any indoor meeting known in the history of amateur athletics", according to the New York Times.
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 ...
The Anthology Club (1804–1811), which founded the Boston Athenæum; The Boston Athletic Association (1887–1936), lost clubhouse amidst the Great Depression, continues to exist as a society organizing races, including the Boston Marathon; The Boston City Club (1906) The Badminton & Tennis Club (1908) The Boston College Club (1913) [229] [230]
An iconic statue in Newton, this statue, which depicts Boston Marathon legend Johnny Kelley at age 27 and 84, signifies the history of Kelley, who ran Boston a record 61 times (and won it twice ...
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]
Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day each April, and as the headquarters for the Dell EMC corporation. At the 2020 census, the town had a population of 18,758. [2]
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 ...