Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain. Brilliant, provocative, radical, he pleaded many a completely hopeless case and was never happier than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
...Pat calls jiu-jitsu "aesthetic dancing" because the contestants move in rhythm, keeping in step. "A wrestler won't keep in step; he'll change his attack. And a jiu-jitsu man cannot work unless his opponent agrees to keep in step...
Going on with the history of wrestling, Pat observed that in the 19th century the sport made great progress. "The eastern states in this country took up the Roman style, while the far west, because of its contact with the Orient, adopted the Japanese technique. The Oklahoma wrestlers tried to combine the two, and that is one reason why they put out the finest grapplers in the game...
...present, according to Pat, out of 200 Oklahoma high schools, there are a 100 that can beat the best prep teams in the east, notably Andover, Choate, Taft, Gilman, and Lawrenceville. In the last few years, however, wrestling in the East has taken big strides. The influx of new coaches from the west, such as Cliff Gallagher at Harvard, Jay Ricks at M.I.T., and Dick Cole at Brown, has been a major factor in the change...
...wrestling was made an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, the year that Pat Johnson started his wrestling career here which culminated in the winning of the national championship in the 135-pound class. About this time Lehigh was becoming the foremost eastern wrestling representative, a position which it has maintained ever since. Harvard was admitted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League, at the time a rather exclusive organization, due to the efforts of Bill Bingham, whose love of the sport has been an important factor in the rise of Harvard wrestling...