Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contenders for the Crimson are Howard Henjyoji at 123 and Ed Franquemont at 157, both sophomores, Ben Brooks at 177, and heavyweight Tack Chace. All but Brooks won at M.I.T. last Tuesday...
Pacing the five-man Crimson team was heavyweight John Elbers, who won the title in his weight class and in the open competition. Elbers' teammates Doug Raymond and Peter Cook swept first and second places in the lightweight class in white belt, the only division in which the Crimson competed...
There's no depth in the top two weights, but there are two good wrestlers: captain Ben Brooks at 177 and Tack Chace at heavyweight...
First he was the manchild, the impish chatterbox who dabbled in verse, ogled the girls ("foxes," he called them), drove around in a tomato-red Cadillac, and made everybody laugh when he announced that he was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world...
...wakes up in the morning to see what he got. Clay is like that kid. He'll know what happened when he wakes up." Bookmakers agreed: they installed Liston as a 1-2 favorite to become the second man in history (the other: Floyd Patterson) to regain the heavyweight championship...