Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson had it all over the visitors in the two lightweight events. Wiry Jim Redmon, of the 121-pound class sailed into his first intercollegiate opponent of the year and pinned him in four and a half minutes. 128-pound Tod Schoenberg showed superb mat technique by downing his man in just over a minute...
...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...
There is no heaven for broken-down prize fighters. But after the last bell has clanged for his last fight, many a boxer has turned barkeep. Joe Madden, onetime lightweight, is probably the only ex-pug who can trace his clicking cash register to his ability to write rather than fight. One night last week 500 of Madden's loyal customers jammed his Manhattan-cafe. Tennist Alice Marble sang, Sportswriter Richards Vidmer helped wait on table. They rang up $1,500 in his cash register-not for Joe Madden but for New York City's needy kids...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
Though only ten years old, lightweight football already has its Immortals: Yale's Doug Northrop, who punted 84½ yards during the 1934 game with Penn (longest punt on record until Al Braga of the University of San Francisco punted 89 yards in a varsity game three years ago); Rutgers' Pomp Chandler, twinkle-toed Negro who led the little Scarlet through three undefeated seasons; Yale's Dave Boies, who in 1936, before a crowd of 12,000, kicked a last-minute field goal that handed Rutgers its first defeat in four years; Princeton's Buster Bedford...