Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Amos Alonzo Stagg first started to coach football at the University of Chicago, not one of the school's buildings had been finished. Jim Corbett had just won the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan; Knute Rockne was a four-year-old youngster in Norway; and it was eight years before the founding of baseball's American League. At Chicago only 13 men turned up for football practice, so Coach Stagg, a Walter Camp All-America end at Yale (class of '88), joined the fun and played on the team himself...
...Jersey Joe Walcott, his first defense of his heavyweight boxing title; in Philadelphia. The flatfooted old pappy guy, 38, in a weary waltz, outboxed Ezzard Charles, 30, a onetime titleholder and clearly the most reluctant challenger in heavyweight history...
...sooner does Mike set eyes on Pat than he signs her to an all-round sports contract. As Mike puts it, "She's nicely packed. Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce." Mike puts Pat on an ironclad training schedule, along with his heavyweight fighter Hucko (Aldo Ray) and his horse Little Nell. But deep down, Mike is a sentimental slob; before long, whenever he looks at Little Nell, he sees Pat's profile instead. As a result, Pat soon forgets about her former boy friend (William Ching), and girl athlete comes...
Ezzard Charles was a five to one favorite to regain the crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in tonight's heavyweight championship fight. If Charles comes back, it will be the first time a heavyweight has retaken the crown after once dosing...
Macleod really made his mark with one speech six weeks ago when he took on and bested Leftist Aneurin Bevan, the undisputed heavyweight debating champ on the opposition side of the House. Even though the subject was socialized medicine, which Bevan considers his own, Macleod outreached him with facts, outgunned him with ridicule (TIME, April...