Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Ezzard Charles, 54, hard-luck heavyweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951; after a seven-year bout with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative muscular disease; in Chicago. A superb tactician, Charles took the heavyweight crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in 1949, but even then he faced an uphill battle for popularity. It became steeper when he ended a comeback try, outpointing the aging Joe Louis in 15 rounds in 1950. Knocked out a year later by Walcott, Charles made several comeback attempts before slipping into obscurity and penury...
...informed the committee Monday night that his training schedule for an upcoming heavyweight title fight would prevent him from fulfilling a previous commitment to speak on Class Day, has agreed to reschedule his appearance at Harvard to June...
...World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammud said yesterday he does not think he will be able to speak at Harvard Class Day ceremonies on June 11, as planned...
Radcliffe's varsity and J.V. heavyweight eights successfully defended their recently-captured Eastern crowns Saturday against Yale as both boasts motored by the Elis midway through the two-mile race in Derby, Conn., winning by four and six lengths, respectively...
Three years ago John Baker, an ex-Harvard heavyweight oarsman, assumed Radcliffe's coaching chores on a no-salary, volunteer basis. Around a nucleus of five freshmen. Baker built the crew into national champions in the space of a single season...