Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benny Leonard retired as lightweight champion of the world in 1924. only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could...
...Nittany Lions are expected to show Harvard a strong forward wall tomorrow, with their chief running threat in Sigel, a lightweight back. With Harvard scouts reporting that the Penn State team merely coasted through their recent game with Waynesburg, in spite of the fact that a last minute touchdown gave victory to the small college, it is likely that the first team will see considerably more action tomorrow than in its first two contests with the weak Buffalo and New Hampshire aggregations...
Evincing an attempt at compromise between the growing spirit of House athletics on one hand and a reiterated demand by a small group of students for the resurrection of 150-pound football on the other, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has lifted the ban on lightweight football and has arranged an eighteen day season culminating in a single game with Yale...
While this move shows consideration for the expressed desires of a small portion of the student body, its wisdom and value are questionable. House football will undoubtedly suffer even though the number of players taken away from it at the beginning of the lightweight season will consist in large part of men who would not have gone out for House teams except to get in training for the 150-pound squad. 150-pound football, even if it does not deprive House football of many men, relegates it to a more sub-ordinate position...
...case a recommendation has already been made at New Haven for the abolition of lightweight football as a stop in their retrenchment program. With the Blue team unavailable as an opponent next year, there would be no point in having a Harvard lightweight team. With these considerations in mind, the present move seems to do little else than retard the natural growth of House athletics for a year...