Word: bouting
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...direct opposition to the 1936 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules, claims that a boxing decision is decided by adding up the scores given by the two judges and the referee and not on a two to one basis. Thus he maintains that the decision in the Olney-Huffman bout in New Haven Saturday was correct...
...Intercollegiate boxing rules, under rule 7, state that the referee shall at the conclusion of a bout abide by the decision of the judges in every case if both agree. If the judges disagree, the referee shall have the power to cast the deciding vote...
...referee are then added up. For this boxing meet the referee and judges were most carefully selected, and approved by the Harvard Athletic Association. This method of scoring was agreed upon by both judges, the referee and both coaches before the match started. In the case of the bout between Huffman of Yale and Olney of Harvard, the score of one judge was Yale 29 1/2, Harvard 30; the score of the other judge was Yale 29, Harvard 26; the score of the referee was Yale 29, Harvard 29, which made a total of points for the three rounds Yale...
...rules under which the match was presumably fought. Under these rules if the two judges do not agree, the referee shall have a third vote which will then make the voting 2-1 instead of 1-1 and will decide the match. It is alleged that in the Olney bout the judges were unable to agree and the referee, voting for Olney, gave the fight to Harvard. The result was announced for Yale...
...another bout, in which the judges were likewise split, it is said that the referee pronounced the match a draw but that again Yale received credit for a straight...