Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handsome, uncauliflowered Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion of the world: the Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque of the New York Boxing Writers' Association, for his "outstanding contribution to boxing in 1939." Outstanding contribution last week: his remark to sluggish Heavyweight Henry Cooper (his onetime gym mate) while beating him in Manhattan: "Hey, Henry, we're stinkin' the joint...
...letters to his class. He gets all tangled up with his wife when an old sweetheart of hers comes to town for a football game. A Milquetoast by nature, the professor quaffs too much of the cup that emboldens, and in a hilarious drunk scene decides to hold his mate as bull elephants, swans, land crabs do - by fighting for her. He does hold her, but not with his fists; it turns out that the old beau's interest is only pigskin deep...
Captain Charley Lutz, best of all Crimson hoopmen, was too light to make his high school team at Gary, Ind. His running mate, Bill Webber, saw little regular service at Des Moines, Iowa. Diminutive Chet Legg is the only man who was a full-fledged regular before he came to Harvard. Legg played at Evanston High in Illinois and Exeter Academy. The other ranking forward, Fran Simpson, did bench duty at Oak Park, Illinois...