Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson 150-pound crew, which trailed Pennsylvania last Saturday, faces the Red and Blue eight again, as well as lightweight crews from Princeton, Yale, and Columbia...
...Lightweight Race Close...
...squad this year is one of the largest which has ever reported for lightweight rowing and with this wealth of material, the possibilities of a winning eight are unusually good. The men have been developing rapidly and though no definite ranking has as yet been given the boats, a seating arrangement should be made after the next race in which there should be but few changes during the rest of the season. It has not yet been decided, however, whether one or two of the light weight eighths will be taken to Kent during spring vacation...
...regatta on the Charles with M. I. T. and Pennsylvania on May 21 is practically assured for the lightweight men, although all the arrangements have not yet been completed. This is the date of the previously arranged 150 pound triangular regatta with Yale and Princeton which was to be held on Lake Carnegie...
Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...