Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only took a little more than seven minutes last night for Cassius Clay to dispose of Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams by a technical knockout at the Astrodome in Houston. Clay floored the listless 33-year-old challenger four times before the referee stopped the fight after 1:08 of the third round...
...monumental issue: whether such blatant violations of personal liberty were to be tolerated. For his part, he did not see how they could. SDS had shown itself to be profoundly "undemocratic," and their tactics deserved to be damned until they were discredited. He might have liked to undertake that fight, but as associate director of the Kennedy Institute he was not about to do it and thereby jeopardize the Institute's program. Yet, there was more to his belligerence than simple disagreement. There were the efforts of the last three weeks, and the frantic attempts to avoid embarrassment for McNamara...
Crimson coach John Yovicsin called it "a typical Harvard-Brown football game." That seems to mean Harvard won but Brown put up a little more of a fight than was expected--statistically. The Bruins held the ball for 79 plays, compared with the Crimson's 65. Brown also had 20 first downs to Harvard...
...game that rivalled the Penn contest in dullness. Fans amused themselves watching the Battle of the Bands between Brown and Harvard instrumentalists. The Bruins played the Yale and Princeton fight songs, and the Harvards retaliated with "The Teddy Bears' Picnic." STATISTICS BROWN HARVARD First Downs 20 18 Rushing Yardage 137 209 Passing Yardage 128 139 Passes 10-22 11-18 Fumbles Lost 2 2 Punts 4-47 3-35 Yards Penalized...
...fourth quarter fist-fight which ended with cancelling 15-yard penalties climaxed the hard-fought defensive battle on muddy Soldier's Field...