Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time...
...from shape that the rest of the scheduled matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five meals daily with snacks in between), was weak from dieting...
Yale proved that its heavyweight varsity is as good as has been claimed when it won the EARC sprints at Princeton Saturday in record breaking time. The Crimson, a close second most of the race, finished third in the 2000 meter race after stroke Bob Lawrence was thrown from the boat eight strokes from the finish line...
This is the weekend for crew. At home, the lightweights are favorites to win their EARC sprints and to finish the season undefeated. At the same time the second seeded heavyweight varsity will face its toughest test this year when it meets Yale in the EARC in Princeton...
...Princeton the heavyweight's will have a considerably tougher time than the 150's. It is hard to estimate the strength of Yale based on this season's performance. Under undeniably faster conditions the Elis beat Princeton last Saturday and broke the course record set by the Crimson the week before. Moreover, they have four veterans from last year's crew, including three from the 1956 Olympic crew...