Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just what the experts had said he would: he jabbed and danced away like an elusive shadow. He was so nervous he even tripped and fell. In the third round, after Louis had nailed him but failed to knock him down, Conn began to grin scornfully at the champ...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...
...Washington's Griffith Stadium one night last week 25,000 fight fans yelled themselves limp. It was the first round of Washington's first world-championship heavyweight fight, and there, hanging over the ropes head first, was Joe Louis, the champ. The boxer who had dumped him on to the ring apron was 25-year-old Buddy Baer, baby brother of onetime
...basis of performances this season and in the winter meet against the Cantabs, Yale looks hot in the distance. Pfeiffenbetger, Adams, and Big Three Cross Country Champ Bill Bird will be Coach Hoyt's nominees in the two mile run, while Mal Main will lead the Blue forces in the mile...
Biggest news for the intercollegiate track world was Fran Maloney's amazing burst of speed with upset indoor I. C. 4A. champ Mike Prohodsky with a triumphant 7:06.7 clocking in the mile and a half distance. Crusader Maloney holds the N. E. A. A. U. two-mile title. Bob Kent with a fourth was Harvard's best against this competition...