Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a 33-year association with Harvard crew, Bert Haines, the "dean of American lightweight rowing," announced his retirement last night as 150-pound crew coach to his three lightweight crews at the 1952 dinner...
Bert Haines, lightweight crew coach, will officiate at what may be his last post-season dinner at 7:15 p.m. tonight as the 150-lb, crewmen sit down to the table together to honor the 1952 season. It is believed that Haines may announce his retirement then. The 150's had one of their most successful records in recent years this spring...
Slender Lauro Salas, featherweight from Mexico, pulled the upset of the year last night when he wrested the World Lightweight Championship from Jimmy Carter of New York in 15 rounds at the Olympic Auditorium...
...flashback, the picture tells of Williams' 1921 conviction for the killing of a Prohibition officer during a raid on a North Carolina moonshine still, his experiences in solitary and on a back-breaking chain gang, his development of a lightweight, short-stroke carbine, using only automobile and tractor axles, a fence post, hacksaw and handfile in a prison blacksmith shop.*The happy ending: his pardon...
Rowing the entire mile and five-sixteenths at the very high stroke of 34 and closing with a final sprint, the Penn varsity lightweight boat nipped Harvard by two seconds to win the Joseph Wright Trophy in the E.A.R.C. regatta Saturday at Princeton...