Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's pride, its heavyweight crew, is in deep trouble. Only three men are left from the boat which carried the Crimson colors to victory in the Grand Challenge at Henley two years ago; only four remain from the crew which was the pre-season favorite last year, and which won all of its longer races. (The heavies lost over sprint distances in the Olympic trials; to Cornell in the E.A.R.C. sprints; and to Navy in the Adams Cup race...
...days a week 24 oarsmen trudge to Newell Boathouse. These are the men from whom the varsity heavyweight eight will be chosen and on whom the Crimson is depending to regain the rowing championship it lost last year...
...often as possible, graduates find jobs fitting their particular skills. Former architects build churches; ex-bankers become diocesan treasurers; onetime Light-Heavyweight Boxer Father Con O'Kelly runs a boxing club in addition to his other parish duties in Stockport, England...
...Floored twice in the first round by the surprise attack of Ingemar Johansson, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson rallied to deck the Swedish challenger in the same wild round, nailed like a frantic amateur until he finally knocked out his man in the sixth to win their rubber match and retain the title at Miami Beach. ¶ New York police began uncovering another major college basketball scandal by arresting two smalltime operators named Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken for paying $1,500 to a player for the University of Connecticut and $1,000 each to two players for Seton Hall...
Other Crimson matmen were George ub, defeated 2 to 1 by Brown captain ne Bouley in the 130 lb. class; Red ant, decisioned 4 to 0 by 191-lb. Phil eyer of Penn State; and heavyweight m Gaston, who lost a 4-0 bout to Pitt's b Guzik...