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Harvard really looked like a good cage outfit, able to give and take with the best of them in a knockdown battle. The spirit and will to win on this year's squad is amazing. "Regardless of the outcome," says Wes Fesler, "we won't be outfought by any one." An overflow crowd jammed into the Athletic Building Wednesday night, probably to get a look at Gus Broberg, but no one man dominated that game. Two high-class teams put on an entertaining show, and there will be more of the same thing, served up on the third floor...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...
...victory marked the opening of the 1942 home grid season, and when the whistle blew ending the game with the Freshmen ahead 14-12, hopes for future varsity elevens brightened considerably. The Yardlings had outfought, outrun, and outplayed their opponents in a decisive fashion...
...Rabbits will have to exceed last Thursday's performance, when they were outfought and tied by Eliot, 0-0, if they are to take the measure of Kirkland, defending champions. And such a possibility is unlikely...
...nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting two months later. Last week, with his title at stake, Champion Ross outboxed and gamely outfought Challenger Garcia until the twelfth round. Then, fatigued and bruised by Garcia's punishing gloves, he fought gamely on, contrived by a magnificent display of ring generalship to keep out of danger until the finish, brought the stands to their feet in admiration...