Henry Lamar (American football)
| Sport(s) | Football, boxing |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 26, 1906 Oxford, Mississippi |
| Died | September 28, 1985 (aged 79) Marlboro, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1934–1942 | Harvard (assistant/freshmen) |
| 1943–1944 | Harvard |
| 1945–1971 | Harvard (freshmen) |
| Boxing | |
| 1932–1937 | Harvard |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 7–3–1 |
Henry Nicholson Lamar (January 26, 1906 – September 28, 1985) was an American college boxing coach, college football coach, and professional boxing executive. He served as the head football coach at Harvard University in 1943 and 1944. Lamar also served as the Harvard boxing coach and freshman football coach.
Lamar was born in Oxford, Mississippi, and raised in Washington, D.C., by government employee Lucius Lamar and his wife Atala. He was a great-grandson of Mississippi jurist Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and a relative of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas. Lamar attended Western High School in Washington, where he began his successful career as a boxer. As a senior, he won the national amateur light heavyweight championship at the Boston Garden in 1925, and successfully defended the title the following year. He made his professional boxing debut in Boston in August 1926. Lamar also won the Pan-American light heavyweight championship.
Lamar attended the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1929. Around that time, he married his wife, Juanita (née Galvin), with whom he had two daughters. Lamar boxed professionally until 1930 when he lost a match to Jim Maloney at Braves Field. After the bout, he said, "That's enough. I'm never going to be a champion ... this is a good time to get out." It was his only loss in 39 bouts as a professional fighter.
Lamar joined the athletic department at Harvard University in 1931, initially intending "just to help out for a few weeks", but he remained at the school as a boxing and football coach for four decades. He became the head boxing coach in 1932 after many students had successfully petitioned for the introduction of the sport in 1929 and 1930. He remained coach after the sport, which had been adopted on a trial basis, was reduced to intramural level in 1937. Fans and sportswriters called Lamar "the gentleman coach of Harvard boxing".
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