Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orschiedt stepped in at a time when Harvard's until-then heavyweight program was nearing the crisis point. The supply of superstars that flooded the school during Don Gambril's tenure was just about running out. The previous spring, in what turned out to be Essick's last meet, a mediocre Yale team had thoroughly embarrassed the cocky Crimson. That 64-49 defeat, Harvard's first in three years, reflected the less-than-exemplary attitude of a team about to sink from the weight of its own internal problems...
...Plimpton persuaded Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion, to box with him, the results to be set down in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article. Plimpton found a trainer named George Brown. "I had been introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway, who always spoke of him with highest regard-as a boxer who could have been a champion if he had been able to accept the idea that he was going to be hit once in a while...
Also having a perfect evening on the mats was the Crimson heavy-weight, Craig Beling. Beling looked awesome as he glued the Worcester heavyweight to the mat at 4:07 of the second period in his first clash. Next, Beling tamed Wildcat Bob McNally...
Harvard led, 21-17, going into the heavyweight bout between the Crimson's Craig Beling and UMass wrestler, John Ailen. In the final period of the event, Ailen needed three more points to record a major decision over Belig and create a tie in the final team score. Ailen momentarily turned Beling on his back in the last seconds of the bout. When the buzzer sounded, the referee awarded the UMass heavyweight only two points, and Harvard emerged with their first victory of the season...
Harvard still led, 17-16, but heavyweight Craig Beling has been practicing less than two weeks after spending the fall on the gridiron, and the rustiness showed. The Crimson grappler quickly found himself in a hole, down 6-1. He just missed pinning his opponent in the final period, but ended up losing a wild...