Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, as interest in reviving boxing in the Ivy League again appears, no one can remember exactly why it was even given up. It wasn't because of injuries--only one boxer ever received even a cut in the team's short history. And it wasn't because of a waning enthusiasm for the sport--every day more than 75 men worked out in the boxing room...
Today's Boxing Rules show the realization, however, that the boxers in 1930-37 might have just been very lucky. Every boxer must now use 12-ounce gloves (vs. 10-ounce in 1930's). Headgeers which also protect the ears and forehead are required. And fighters must have steel athletic supporters and a rubber mouth piece. In addition, the ring must have a mat with a two-inch padding...
Pitfalls on the Path. Patterson's path from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan...
...fellow who will leave you for dead. He is a good-looking six-footer with lean hips, long arms and broad shoulders powered by slabs of smooth muscle ... he fights with the violent gracefulness of a large cat hunting its dinner. He is a rarity-a good boxer with a knockout in either fist . . . He is hard to hit, but he has been clobbered, upstairs and down, without losing his poise or aggressiveness. He has never been knocked...
...boxer's earning power is limited to a comparatively short time. If Helfand's views are upheld, a fighter could be put out of business during the most productive years of his ring career. Some boxers know little else besides how to fight and can be exploited by unscrupulous managers, Lamar claims...