Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Value Received. In London, after Eddie Hearn beat him on points in eight rounds, Heavyweight Boxer Fred Powell complained bitterly that he had signed for a ten-rounder, persuaded the referee to continue the fight, was knocked out in the tenth round...
Last week, in Idaho State College's jampacked gymnasium, rugged undergraduates from 17 colleges whaled away at each other for three days to settle the N.C.A.A. championships. Superbly conditioned, Louisiana State's sophomore heavyweight, Crowe Peele, demonstrated just how good a college boxer can get. Although his team finished behind Michigan State in a three-way tie for second (along with San Jose State and Syracuse University), Peele battered his way through the tournament finals without a defeat...
...Goody ear-Philco Playhouse scored a near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
...except Richter, Frate, and Culbert will be returning next season, and should assure the squad of another excellent set of forwards in 1956. The group includes two guards, an end, a center, and a tackle from the football squad, as well as the heavy and light heavyweight varsity wrestlers...
...schoolboy in Baltimore, not too many seasons ago, he won the Maryland State Championship for three consecutive years. He was undefeated during two seasons of heavyweight competition at Governor Dummer and while wrestling for Yale and Syracuse, where he later coached two undefeated freshman teams, he never lost a bout...