Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing field seats for the Brown and Virginia games this year will be $2,20 with the entire stadium bowl selling at $1.10. As usual the charge for the Yale game at New Haven will...
Closest election of all was the 14-man Junior Album competition. Those elected were Robert M. Bunker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, with 223 votes, Richard H. Sullivan, of Marietta, Ohio, with 215, James Tobin, of Champaign, Illinois, with 179, Robert E. L. Strider, 2d, of Wheeling, West Virginia, with 165, and Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., of Milford, with 164. Between the fourth and the seventh man in the 1939 race there was a margin of just five votes...
...better qualified to be coach of the fistic art than Lamar. His whole career to date is almost exclusively tied up with boxing. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1907, he has lived mostly in Mississippi and Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia, class of 1928, and it was there that he achieved most prominence as an amateur...
Ruefully, Lamar explains that he planned to return to Virginia to take graduate courses in engineering, but pugilism claimed him first, and he turned professional as soon as he graduated, competing in around 40 bouts in his pro career. As a prize-fighter, he lost only one fight, and that was to Jim Maloney, of South Boston. He admits with some hesitation that instead of being called "Kid Lamar" or the "Southern Slugger," he was billed as "The Washington Schoolboy...
...very proud of the fact that his old intercollegiate teams averaged only one loss per year while he was coaching, during which time such boxing strongholds as Virginia, Penn State, and Army were subdued by Crimson fighters...