Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding High. When "Big Jim" Thompson won the Illinois governorship by a whopping 1.3 million votes, people wondered if it would be all downhill from there. The government Thompson inherited was on the verge of bankruptcy because of the free-spending policies of maverick Democratic Governor Dan Walker. The statehouse was a shambles because of Walker's incessant feuding with Chicago's Cook County Democratic machine. Yet as Thompson starts his second year as Governor, he is far and away the most popular politician in the state and a reasonable contender for a place on the national ticket...
...captains Jim Corcoran and Tom Bixby each added one more win to their season totals by recording major decisions in the 150 and 158-lb. classes. Bixby chalked up his eighth win of the season by downing opposing General Jim Flippen, 10-1. Lowell's 158-lb. grappler, Bill Rawnsley, bowed to Corcoran...
...think Jim Curry is afraid to play his sister...
...Jim Corcoran and Sal D'Agostino both lost by narrow margins to their Princeton opponents. Evan Kovalsky edged Corcoran, 8-6, in the 158-lb. division, and D'Agostino, who was battling the flu, lost by a score of 12-7, to Mike Sherwood. At 190-lbs., D'Agostino has beaten Sherwood twice in the past and still has a very good shot at All-Ivy honors in his weight class...
Crimson co-captains Tom Bixby and Jim Corcoran avenged their earlier losses by sweeping the 150- and 158-lb. divisions. Bixby downed Jim Jones, 6-1, and Corcoran scored a major decision by whitewashing A1 Wolf...