Word: pounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dignity and Destruction. The Gun, a 13-foot 18-pounder abandoned by retreating Spanish regulars, fell into a few weeks' frenzied and ingenious service at the hands of Spanish mountaineers. More properly, the mountainers served the gun: its dignity and its power coalesced half-hearted and wrangling bandits into an army which swelled from two to ten thousand. This armv's third leader, a mountain boy, destroyed a crack French regiment with the gun. He was nudging to pieces a fortress wall ten feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed...
Pete Fuller, 165 pounder, advanced as far as the semi finals. In his consolation match, he defeated Ross B. Frair of Cornell by a decision, 7 to 0. In his second place match, however, he was defeated by John Stockbridge of Lehigh...
Walt Parsons, outstanding 155 pound grappler, won by decision, contributing only three points instead of his usual five to the Crimson end of the score. Jim Reidy, diminutive 121 pounder, used a double bar-lock to give the wrestlers their only fall of the match...
This was the second loss of the season for the matmen. The team, coached by Jay Schaffran, has also garnered two victories. Pete Fuller, agile 165 pounder, starred for the Crimson in this meet...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...