Word: lehner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughen their fighting fingers, contestants had long practiced such tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn...
...finals, Lehner met 240-lb. Blasius Glatz of Garmisch. Both men had heavily bandaged middle fingers, but neither was feeling much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...
Columbia is more than just Chet Forte this year. The 5-9 sophomore still leads the Ivy League in scoring with more than 24 points per game, but 6-4 captain Frank Thomas grabs about 16 rebounds per game, and Ted Dwyer and Lou Lehner have come along quickly this season. The Lion attack features the fast break, and consistently good shooting...
Chet Forte, who personally defeated the Crimson in Cambridge, sank only two field goals, but scored 13 points anyway with nine fouls. Herb Kutlow had 11 and Bob Lehner 10 points for Columbia...