Word: wrestlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh day Aldrich slashed out with the pocketknife again, this time gilled a four-foot shark and yanked it aboard. It flopped down on Pastula in the bottom of the raft. He rolled over and pinned it like a wrestler. With their pliers the men ripped the shark open. Dixon remembered reading that sharks stored up vitamins in their liver. They joked about that. The liver was "very tasty," so were two sardines in the shark's stomach which the men said "must have been partly digested because they tasted as if they had been cooked...
...Guild, 123-pound Sophomore wrestler, was beaten by D. Sjostedt in the final round of the N.E.A.A.A.U. tournament in Boston Saturday night. Captain elect Lee Sosman, Harvard's only other entry in this final competition of the grappling season, was defeated in his opening match in the 175 pound class...
...Guild, 121-pound Varsity wrestler, reached the semi-finals in the New England Intercollegiate Tournament at Wesleyan last night by defeating Williams' entry. Semi-final and final matches in the entirely individual competition will be held this afternoon...
...both meets the Eli grapplers were as superior as the score indicates. For the Crimson Varsity, 121-pound Sophomore Ted Guild was the only wrestler to take a match as he won a 9-3 decision over Johnny Garvan...
Sirs: For a heinous-looking human being, the record was held until the Dec. 22 issue of TIME by "The Angel" (wrestler) when Admiral Yamamoto topped him badly on front cover. GORMAN L. BURNETT Lynchburg...