Word: coursen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Townsend, while number two Larry Brownell gained a 15-6, 15-10, 15-12 victory over Amherst's Don MacDougall. Bill Wister whipped Bob Herd 15-11, 15-5, 18-15; Johnny Rauh beat Ted Widemann 15-12, 15-12, 12-15, 15-7; and Ed Rose topped Herb Coursen...
...lost a close decision to ex-Oklahoma University star Jack Blubaugh, now wrestling for the Armed Services wrestling squad. In previous rounds, Lee pinned Rush of the U.S. Navy, Coursen of Springfield, Rose of Long Island, and Haney of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. In a fourth round match, leading by a fair margin. Lee rolled over on his own shoulders in applying a cradle hold to Armand Taylor, a Norfolk, Virginia, schoolboy, and since Olympic touch-fall rules were followed in the tournament, was declared loser. Blubaugh placed first and Taylor second...
...front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company, in the 2nd Division, one of its three West Point platoon leaders was killed, the other two wounded. Football Captain John Trent ('50) was killed three days after arriving in Korea; 1st Lieut. Samuel Coursen of the 1949 class was killed last October, rescuing a G.I. trapped in an enemy-held dugout, won a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in action. By June Week, 267 West Pointers had become battle casualties in Korea. The last three classes had lost 41 men killed, 108 wounded...