Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack Dempsey is the boxing champion of the world and a movie star, but few people know that he almost became a college professor as well...
...morning not long ago a college professor called on Dempsey at his hotel. He was Dr. Albert P. Sy, professor of anatomy at the University of Buffalo, and he asked the champion to come to the college and deliver a series of lectures on physical culture and muscular development...
...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
...Coach Dempsey expects to be able to place his strongest combination on the ice today with the exception of the goal position. Adams, the regular net guardian, still has the grippe and will be unable to play...
This will be the initial outdoor contest for Coach Dempsey's first-year stickmen, and the third game of the season. Cushing Academy was defeated in a listless encounter 13 to 1 in the season opener on January 14, and a strong Kent School sextet was outplayed last Saturday 5 to 2. The 1928 forward line compares very favorably with that of the championship 1927 sextet and the defense has proved very powerful. Both Adams and Morrill have shown themselves capable of handling the goal guard assignment. It is chiefly in reserve material that the 1928 team compares unfavorably with...