Word: wrestlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like M.I.T., Wesleyan could not produce a wrestler capable of beating one of Chief Boston's 1947 brood. Taking two bouts by falls, one by default and the rest by comfortable decisions, the varsity wrestling team rolled to a 30 to 0 win over the team from Middletown yesterday afternoon in Connecticut...
...drinks, cigarettes and neckties-just like Sherm's customers. Said José: "I sat entranced. I never saw anything so pretty." Sherm advised them to vote against the union. They did. The day after the election, he gave them $100 apiece, and $500 to the head pot-wrestler...
Willing Loser. Camille was one of twelve children born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent...
Pete Fuller, Varsity wrestling captain, represents the only other Crimson Olympic hope who can be justified six months ahead of time. Both a boxer and a wrestler, Fuller intends to tryout for the Olympic team on both squads and stands about an equal chance of making either one. As a fighter Fuller has lost only one fight, a close decision to national AAU champ, Willie Clemmons, two weeks ago in the Garden, while winning 26 other fights, 21 by knockouts. Clemmons plans to turn pro the first of next year, but Fuller may fight him in a return match toward...
...wrestler Fuller could enter either the 191-pound class or the unlimited division since he weighs in the neighborhood of 195. Last year in collegiate competition he ended as one of the best in the East, losing a decision to Henry O'Shaughnessey of Columbia in the final of the Eastern Intercollegiate heavyweight championships. The main obstacle in his path, however, seems to be one Henry Wittenberg of the New York City Police department. Regarded as the top amateur wrestler in the country, Wittenberg has not been beaten since he left CCNY 12 years ago. Fuller lost...