Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deacons, traveling away, will struggle with the Vanderbilt team, Yale's champion among the colleges. Those Kirkland will send away are: A. L. Waldron, Jr. '40, M. L. Weiss '39, W. N. Rines '40, W. D. Fraser '38, P. R. Wentworth '39, L. A. Campbell '39, L. A. Gore '40, J. E. Reagan '39, S. Bunshaft '39, R. H. Sibley, Jr. '38, K. C. Russell '38, who is captain...
...lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...addition to his college fist-flinging, he ventured into bigger circles, for in 1925 he was National Junior Champion in the 175-pound class, and in the same year was National Champion in the 175-pound class. Also in '25, he won the title of Pan American Champion. In 1926, he was again National Champion...
Outstanding among all matmen is 175-pound Captain Johnnie Harkness, who has chalked up eight straight victories. Probably the most perfectly developed undergraduate, Harkness feiled at Penn State the intercollegiate champion Ross Shaffer, and by dint of this victory may well earn the title in the champion tilts this year. Among his victims also are Captain Mouse Emory of Princeton and Kerns of Navy...
BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs' famed Casino...