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Word: heavyweights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another sophomore, Bob Panoff, debuts as a heavyweight against Phil Corell. Last year Crimson heavyweight Tack Chace had to win the final match to preserve what became a 19-13 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Meet Rough Diplomats | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...sophomores, the big man in many ways is heavyweight Bob Panoff, who must fill the size 15 shoes of talented--but graduated--Tack Chace. It's Panoff's job, and he may be called upon to deliver winning points in tight meets...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Matmen Open 'Juggling Act' Season Today | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...reporters were respectfully si lent. The night before, in front of 35,460 people in Houston's Astrodome, Heavyweight Champion Clay had made believers out of all but his severest critics by utterly demolishing the man who was supposed to be his toughest challenger: Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams. Granted, Williams, at 33, was nearly ten years older than Clay, and he was not exactly intact; in 1964, a .357 magnum bullet from a Texas state trooper's pistol had ripped through his stomach, costing him a kidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Skinning the Cat | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Winner & Loser. For Clay, the victory marked the end of a year in which he has beaten five opponents and earned $2,000,000. It also left Cassius with only one logical contender: Ernie Terrell, the World Boxing Association's heavyweight champion, whom he will probably fight next February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Skinning the Cat | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...extra-fast tonight," Clay said later. He was so fast that the Cat hardly laid a paw on him. "I used the Ali Shuffle before each knock-down, and it really confused him," the heavyweight champ said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clay Skins 'Cat' By TKO in 3rd | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

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