Word: crotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Bob Gilmor then went out and took his man down picked him up and carted him back to the center of the mat so that he could not crawl off, and calmly proceeded to pin him in two minutes flat with a half-nelson and crotch. This set the stage for the heavyweight match...
...Dick Dickey (S) d. Bob Crook, 7-3; 147--Joe Noble (H) d. Frank Mieliniki, 8-1; 157--Burt Berger (S) d. Jack Eastling, 4-1; 167--Bob Foster (H) d. Vic Lewin, 8-5; 177--Bob Gilmor (H) d. Buddy Woelfel in 2:00 with half-nelson and crotch; Heavyweight--George Benedict (S) d. Al Culbert...
...first fall came in 2:40 of the first period of the 137-lb. bout, when Bob Cook, already holding a five to nothing point advantage, caught Penn's Dennie Hurley in a half nelson with crotch grip...
...pound class victory. Bob Gilmor the varsity's 167 pounder, pinned Sullivan in 7:27 minutes. Captain Ken Culbert pinned Baumgardner of Williams with a reverse cradle in two minutes. In the unlimited class Pete Morrison of Harvard pinned Reed in 2:30 with a half-nelson and a crotch held...
Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (?10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly...