Word: mat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangler Lewis and Joe Stecher, a farmer boy who once made a mule lose consciousness by locking its ribs in a scissors hold, met on a mat in St. Louis and pulled at each other's heads for one hour while a sleepy newspaper man snored loudly somewhere near them. After a while Lewis put Stecher down, then put him down again, winning the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...
...Harvard wrestling teams get into action this evening in their first contests after the interim of the mid-year examination period. With four new men in the line-up, the University grapplers are scheduled to take the mat against Springfield College at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. Holders of H. A. A. season tickets will be admitted to this event. The first year men travel to Watertown, Conn., where they will engage the wrestlers from Taft School...
...University wrestling team went down to defeat before the Columbia mat-men by the score of 17 to 10 in their meet in New York Saturday night, while the 1931 grapplers were overwhelming the first-year Tufts team at Medford by the score...
This afternoon the University wrestling team will meet the Columbia mat-men in New York City while the 1931 grapplers will oppose the Tufts Freshmen in Medford...
...line-up of the University wrestling team for its meet with Tufts on Saturday night was announced yesterday following an elimination tournament held in the wrestling room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. The finals of the Freshman Interdormitory mat matches will be held at 7 o'clock Saturday night on the main floor of Hemenway and will be followed immediately by the meet between Tufts and the Crimson grapplers...