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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavyweight Kevit Cook followed in the main bout and exited with a large bloody cut on his cheek. Cook's performance was typical of Brown's perennial sporting attitude...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Strong Crimson Sextet Whips Brown, 9-3 | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

...power of Coach-Edo Marion's team, two-deep this year for the first time, showed most strongly in sabre, where Mike Woolf, Peng-Sui Mei, and Don Tingle led the division to a clean sweep. Dave Silbert and Doug Runnels each took one bout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Win, 22-5 | 2/7/1957 | See Source »

...Gene Fullmer was named for his parents' idol, gentleman Gene Tunney (whose real name is James Joseph), but he grew up to admire a different type of heavyweight, man-eater Jack Dempsey. At the age of eight he decided he wanted to become a prizefighter, fought his first bout at twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lemme Open Up | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

There were only two pins in the bout, one for each team. Tom (T.T.) Myers pinned Joe Steinzig for the JV five-pointer in the 123-pound class, while John Watkins pinned John Sachs for the freshmen in the 130-pound division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Wrestlers Lose to J.V. Team | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

Even before the bout started, the young pretender to the heavyweight title assumed the prerogatives of a champion. Floyd Patterson, 21, made Archie Moore, the fading patriarch (39, going on 43) of the prize ring, cool his heels for a quarter-hour before weighing in. Outployed for perhaps the first time in his garrulous career, Moore sulked silently through the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Youngest Ever | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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