Word: bethea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard managed its final flash of brilliance in the next event, the 120-yard high hurdles, when both Awori and Spitzberg qualified for the finals and Awori got three points with a third place finish. His time of 0:14.3 was the same as that of the winner, John Bethea of Morgan State...
Hurdler Tony Lynch lost out in the quarter-finals of his event, eventually won by John Bethea of Morgan State...
...night last week, Ernie climbed into the ring at the Baltimore Coliseum to fight New York's Wayne Bethea, 31. A hulking 205-pounder, Bethea had fought Sonny Liston and Ezzard Charles, had a record of 32-19-3. Ernie weighed 184 Ibs. on the boxing commission's scales, and he had not fought in nearly a year. "You have to prove yourself," shrugged his manager. "You have to be ready to take a chance...
Some chance. In the ninth round, Bethea unloaded a series of bombs and Ernie toppled to the canvas. Rushed to a hospital for "observation," he asked for a drink of water, sank into a deep coma, and died of a brain hemorrhage -boxing's tenth fatality...