Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wins tonight, the varsity will have reversed four of its six losses to Eastern opponents in a surge after Christmas vacation that has resulted in eight victories in its last nine games...
...Crimson, runner-up in the Eastern Intercollegiate League last year, winning 18 of 23 games, should field another strong team. To be a contender again, however, Coach Norman Shepard will have to count on help from members of last year's freshman team...
...College, Lamar, in 1939, proposed a ruling which prohibited anyone who had boxed in a public contest after the age of sixteen from competing in intercollegiate boxing--amateurs cannot box officially until seventeen. The N.C.A.A. turned down this proposal, however, until 1948 when the last of the big Eastern schools gave up the sport...
Boxing was given up as an intercollegiate sport in 1938 after a brief eight-year career at the College. Although no major Eastern college at present sponsors a boxing team, four universities last night expressed a desire to re-establish the sport in intercollegiate competition if they could find opponents...
...four Eastern colleges who present- ly sponsor separate boxing clubs include Dartmouth, Syracuse, Cornell and Virginia. Last month Virginia and Syracuse sent out questionnaires to several colleges which formerly supported boxing teams in order to determine if the sport could be revived as intercollegiate competition...