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Buddy King and Captain Bob Claflin survived the preliminaries but both were beaten in the quarter-finals. Barton Downes, of Navy, stopped King with half-nelson and inside crotch at 5:25 and Jim Jackson, Lehigh, threw Claflin in a figure four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Reaches Semi-final Round Of Mat Tourney | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...might be a Grimshaw," his sidekick muttered, "and remember, all that Glynnters is not gold. If those Brownies got into the Swingler things, they might get a half-Nelson on us and Barry the Crimson...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: "We'll Do It Up Brown" | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

This reasoning seemed historically sound. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, the half-Nelson of Japan, had caught Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet 18,000-miles off base in Tsushima Strait and destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Ruin in Two Phases | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Jayvce contest was marked by only one victory by a fall for the victorious Crimson. Bill Twitchell, new Freshman from mat-mad Milton, contributed the five points with a half-nelson, while four other victories by decision gave the team the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN BOW AT NEW HAVEN | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...falls provided the margin of victory. Crimson Captain Bill Sax pinned his opponent with a half-nelson and arm lock in 4:35 to win the 175 event, as Twitchell of Governor Dummer was pinned in 1:20, giving the Jayvees the 155-pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Wrestlers Pin Dummer Matmen | 2/25/1943 | See Source »

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