Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promoter Sol Strauss won a victory of sorts. Jersey Joe Walcott reluctantly signed on Sol's terms (20% of the net gate, radio and television returns, 22½% of the movie rights) instead of his own (30%) for a return bout with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium on June...
Although the Varsity continued the recently-hallowed tradition of losing to Yale, Howie Schless' undefeated Yard-lings saved the afternoon from complete disaster by edging the Eli Freshmen, 14 to 12. Chief Bender's win in the unlimited bout decided the match for the Crimson...
Coach Henry Lamar declared that the tournament aroused the "greatest upsurge of undergraduate interest in boxing, since the war," and predicted even more excitement in the bout for all-University championships next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Forty-four men, several of whom boxed in the House matches, will vie for top honors in the tournament which includes the top boxers in all graduate schools...
Dartmouth's traditionally weak graplers followed the pattern of their predecessors, winning but one bout, drawing two, and dropping three by falls. Brown did considerably better and but for a default in the 121-pound class, where the Bruin contestant failed to make weight, might have shaded the Varsity...
Three hundred fifty fans, most of them standees, saw the more exciting Block-house proceedings. At 121, Coombs took a default but lost to his overweight opponent by a 7 to 2 count in a subsequent exhibition bout. Brown won a default in the 128-pound class and a pin in the next weight. Then Ray took a 4 to 0 decision at 145, but Conant was pinned...