Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth the week off," Steve Brooks '70, number three man on the Harvard Heavyweight crew, said after he returned to a regular practice schedule yesterday afternoon, just over a week after the team won the Olympic trials in California...
...Harvard heavyweight crew's biggest test, the Harvard light-weights showed them in England...
Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...
...also about money. Frazier, a onetime slaughterhouse laborer who once earned $125 a week, picked up $120,000 in a mere six minutes last week, when he defended his five-state (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine) version of the heavyweight title against Mexico's Manuel Ramos, 24, at Madison Square Garden. A 4-to-l underdog in the betting, the Mexican shocked everybody-especially Frazier-by unloading a first-round right that buckled Joe's knees and sent him reeling backward into the ropes. Frazier shook his head to clear the cobwebs ("It's the hardest...
Harvard's heavyweight crew, top contender to represent the United States in the Olympics, recovered from a poor start to edge the Vesper Boat Club, its foremost challenger, in a 2000-meter race Saturday in Pelham Manor...