Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Brooks Cavin, Jr. '37 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been elected captain of the Varsity wrestling team for the 1937 season. Cavin has had an outstanding record as a wrestler and has been a member of the team for the last two years. His wrestling class is 145 pounds. He prepared for Harvard at George School where he was a member of the football, baseball, and wrestling teams. He is 21 years old, weighs 148 pounds, and is 6 feet tall...
Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...
After the meet, Moncrieff M. Cockrane, 165-pound wrestler, was elected captain of the team...
...dohyo-iri (ring entry) wearing damask aprons embroidered to indicate their rank. Next they assure audiences of their sincerity by putting their left hands on their hearts, stretching out their right. After bending his knees, clapping his hands three times, spreading his arms out straight, shaking each leg, a wrestler removes his apron, purifies himself by putting salt on himself and the ring. Only then can the match start...
First maneuver in sumo is rigidly conventional. Both wrestlers crouch at opposite sides of the arena awaiting the charge. When one wrestler charges, his opponent, if unprepared, may say "matta!" (wait). For 300 years the rules permitted Japanese wrestlers thus to delay the beginning of their bouts as long as they pleased. Last year, for the first time, the period in which a contestant could demand a fresh start was limited to ten minutes...