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Word: crusher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...card at the Garden Saturday night was a classic. For the main event, Bruno Samartino and Chief Jay Strongbow challenged Bepo and Gaeto Mongol for the tag team championship of the world. Crusher Verdue, Gorilla Monsoon, the Black Demon, and Little Brutus headlined the openers...

Author: By Michael J. Ryan iii, | Title: Bepo and Gaeto Mongol Keep Mat Title In Garden Tag Team Wrestling Matches | 11/12/1970 | See Source »

...This year's Heisman Trophy winner, Owens rewrote the record books with career totals of 3,867 yards rushing and 56 touchdowns-the latter eclipsing the three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers or O. J. Simpson, Owens is a driving, slashing runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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