Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHILADELPHIA--Harvard heavyweight Craig Beling earned a berth in the semifinals in the EIWA wrestling championships by defeating Mike Duncan of East Stroudsburg, 9-3, in the opening round, and then ousting third-seeded Mike Newbern of Lehigh in the quarterfinals here yesterday...
Bill Mulvhill, at 134 lbs., co-captain Tom Bixby and Jim Corcoran, in the 150-and 158-lb. divisions, and Yal D'Agostino or Craig Beling, at 190 lbs. and heavyweight, could finish in one of the first three spots in their divisions if all goes well today and tomorrow. The top three finishers in each class earn a trip to the NCAA finals...
...last few rounds, those watching felt a growing and almost unreasonable pathos. It was an emotional force considerably larger than the spectacle-a heavyweight champion losing his title-might be expected to generate. The moment carried an accumulation of memories and meanings that are involved in the drama of great athletes aging and failing...
...play can lend themselves to extravagant speculations, and Ali is one of the most abundantly complicated figures in the history of games. His career in boxing has of course been totally entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only a part. But more vivid than his conversion to Islam, his anti-Viet Nam politics or his famous mouth is the memory...
Craig Beling brought the Crimson as close as it could come to the Eli's total by nailing Yale's heavyweight, Mike Makuch, in 2:29. Beling also pinned Russell Settipane in the Brown match to assure the Crimson of its ninth victory of the year...