Word: munn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eastman, who was for two years a tackle on the University football team, and a mainstay of the line, was dwarfed into insignificance beside the huge bulk of Munn, who is six feet six inches tall and weighs 265 pounds...
While demonstrating to his audience the various wrestling holds which he had employed in defeating Strangler Lewis two months ago, Munn lifted Eastman into the air, and tossed him about his head with little difficulty...
...Munn was a former star lineman of the Nebraska football team, on which Eastman also played for a year before entering the University. During his year of football in the West. Eastman had as a fellow lineman one of Munn's younger brothers, who has since forsaken football for a seat in the Nebraska state legislature...
Before beginning his demonstration, Munn gave a brief talk, describing his experiences since his graduation from Nebraska. After service in the Army during the war, he entered business, working for some months as a salesman. But at the urgence of some of his friends, he deserted business and returned to athletics as a profession. After a brief and unsuccessful career as a boxer, he took up wrestling, and in 11 months worked his way to his present position in the wrestling world...
After this introduction, Munn called Eastman from the sidelines, and the two men stripped to the waist, while Munn explained to his audience the importance of a knowledge of the law of levers, and the chief nerve centers of the body, in wrestling...