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Burchett said that although Dean had been very sick, he was in good health last week and had regained all but ten pounds of his normal weight. He was living in a two-room underground apartment at the prison camp, wearing a neat pin-stripe suit, playing Korean chess with his guard. General Dean still did not know that he had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first to be won in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: The Dean Story | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...matches provided a couple of injuries. Failure of the Williams 167-pounder to make the weight gave the Crimson a gift of five points: The match was held as an exhibition, and Joe Hubbard sprained his neck when he held a neck bridge for 40 seconds to avoid a pin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Down Ephmen by 20-15 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Eddie Bursk started things off with a pin, and varsity matmen took his cue and went on to crush the Terriers by taking seven out of eight matches, six of them on falls. It was the second straight win for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Strangle Terriers for 2nd Straight Victory | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

After Bursk's second-round pin, 130-pound Bud Adams outfought his opponent for two-and-one-half stanzas, and finally pinned him at 7:23 with a reverse-nelson and body-bar-hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Strangle Terriers for 2nd Straight Victory | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

Crimson victory was assured when Myles Cunningham, wrestling out of his weight class at 157, decisioned his opponent, 9 to 4, giving the wrestlers a 23 to 0 advantage. Capable Chick Chandler rubbed salt into Terrier wounds with a first-round pin, and after Farrington's defeat, heavyweight George Bates ended the slaughter on a pin at 8:47 with a body press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Strangle Terriers for 2nd Straight Victory | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

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