Word: maulers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What drove Dan Haupt, the Kansas Kid, the Midwest Mauler, to enter the ring with a champion who has left 31 out of his 35 opponents chewing the canvas...
Journeying twelve miles to high school in Sterling (pop. 526), Steinkuhler played only eight-man football. Perhaps the larger emphasis on versatility in this game is what made him a faster, nimbler, smarter big man, and not just a mauler, though Steinkuhler is that too. He is gentle-spoken, all the same. With his glasses on, he seems too decent for trap blocking. "Every kid in Nebraska dreams of playing football for the Cornhuskers," he says. "Everything seems so big here, and it is big. I don't even know some guys' names, and that's pretty...
...Blackie before he was Jack Dempsey, and he was William Harrison Dempsey before that. Also the Manassa Mauler, for the Colorado cow town where he was born on June 24, 1895. Toughening his face by marinating it in brine, hardening his jaw by chomping pine gum, Dempsey set out hoboing across the West and brawling in saloons. "You and your opponent would go at it," he exlpained, "and if the bar patrons liked it, they'd pass...
...Mauler...