Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraternities or the 'big-men-on-the-campus' stuff. They come only as a substitute for something better." To Buck the "something better" is the House plan or athletics for all. "Varsity competition should never go beyond the player's ability." Once athletic officials start clamoring for gate receipts, than tension mounts, alumni demand better teams, better teams involve higher expense, and the result is that "football is no longer in the hands of the students...
...perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth-round comeback and knocked Turpin out. Robinson's last ambition then was to win the light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) title from Joey Maxim (see below). Spotting his opponent 15 Ibs., Robinson...
Dominguin shooed his guests away; he wanted to talk business with his father and brother. The talk was in big figures. For each of his four fights in the Plaza Mexico he has been guaranteed $13,300, plus gate percentages that will bring the take up to about $22,800 for each fight. In his twelve years in the bull ring he has made a little under $2,000,000, and he has salted a lot of it away-some of it in Spanish hunting lodges and preserves, some in Colombian and Brazilian coffee investments, some in the National City...
...menacing crowd awaited his next appearance at the Barcelona ring. The police advised him to leave town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder and his montera on his forehead, and strode alone toward the mob. The angry crowd fell silent and opened respectfully before him. That afternoon he put on such a show that he was carried back to his hotel on the shoulders...
...season. As a quick-kicker, he had no peer; as a defensive player, in the days before the two-platoon system, Baugh once led the N.F.L. in interceptions. Almost since the day he entered the league, the big No. 33 on Baugh's back has been the biggest gate attraction in professional football...