Word: half-nelson
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...then the other on top, but Wright piled up a time advantage of six minutes and seven seconds after ten minutes or rough and tumble fighting. In the 155-pound class, S. T. Clarke 1M, a former Stanford mat star, easily threw Hayden Estey '36 with a half-nelson and body hold after only two minutes and 27 seconds...
...Levin '32, Crimson grappler, and H. H. Fisher of Army had each other on the verge of a fall several times in their hard-fought light-heavy-weight battle before the Army man, breaking away from the half-Nelson Levin had clamped on him, tossed his Harvard opponent with a bar and chancery hold. In the final encounter, R. W. Straus '31, Harvard heavyweight, crushed his rival, Lincoln, to the mat in short order with another bar and chancery hold...
...lighter weights the Norwich grapplers had everything their own way, but the heavier classes produced bouts which were undecided up to the last few minutes. It was in the 145-pound class that the University showed up best, Curtis Nelson '24 finally throwing Captain Merchant with a bar and half-nelson hold after five minutes of aggressive attack...
...pound and 175-pound classes. In the latter match, with C. L. Abernethy '22, the best wrestling of the evening was shown. G. W. Tower Unc. E.S., in a hard-contestd heavyweight match, won by throwing his opponent, Arthur Anthony Unc., in 7 minutes 38 seconds with a half-nelson and body-hold...
...well-matched pair, T. L. Parsonnet '22, and Spellman, of Brown in the 158 1b. class went four extra periods before a decision was granted to Parsonnet. Shurtleff, of Brown secured an easy fall over S. Scheinfein '21, with a half-nelson, in 6 minutes, 4 seconds. J. F. Brown '22 also had no difficulty in gaining a fall ever Armstrong, the Brown heavyweight, with a half-nelson and wrist lock...