Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton's Brad Glass, former heavyweight champion, won his match in the 191 pound class. He's not competing in the heavyweights during this year...
Three Crimson wrestlers survived the preliminaries (first of four rounds): Lee, 137-pound Icko Iben, and heavyweight George Bates. Lee trounced Lehigh's Howie Harman in the quarter-finals on a 7 to 1 decision. Bob Bury of Syracuse eliminated Iben, pinning him at 3:58 with a body press and bar arm hold, while Princeton's Brad Glass pinned Bates at 5:28 on a reverse chancery hold. Glass, an All-American tackle on the undefeated 1951 Tiger eleven, eventually took the individual heavyweight title...
Outweighed, unknown Frank Yoffe of Dudley scored the upset of the House boxing season at the Blockhouse last night when he battered the heavyweight championship away from Arnie Horween...
...Elis have the bulk of their power in the heavy classes, which include Bill Downey at 167, Captain George Graveson, who has lost only one match this season, at 177, and Art Merriman at heavyweight. They will oppose Tony Caimi, Dick Farrington, and George Bates...
Four-Man Bobsled. Germany's heavyweight team (total weight: 1,050 Ibs.), driven by World Champion Andreas Ostler, edged out the U.S.'s Stan Benham & Co. (weight: 970 Ibs.), by 2.6 seconds in four heats. Since added weight means added momentum, the Olympic Committee has ruled that hereafter average weight shall not exceed 220 Ibs. per man. Sighed one fat bobsledder: "It's diet or quit...