Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that Joe looks awful good; he sure is still a good...
Champion Charles could have made it even stronger. At 35, for all the quarter-inch of fat that bulged over his purple trunks, Joe Louis still looked like the best heavyweight on two feet. Nursing a scuffed eyelid in his dressing room after the match, he was noncommittal when sport-writers asked him whether he was testing himself for a comeback, perhaps in a championship go against Charles next summer...
Houston, who is from Haverhill and 16 Quincy Street, was captain of the 1949 varsity football squad. He also wrestled heavyweight on the varsity in 1947 and was undefeated in 1948. This term the 24-year-old married veteran received the Francis Harden Burn Scholarship for his combined athletic and Scholastic prowess. He concentrates in Government and hopes to attend law school...
Myerson's team is strong through the middle weights-136, 145, 155-and weak at 165 and 175. Tech also has sophomore Chuck Bading handling the heavyweight slot Lars Soderberg held last year; Bading came in second at 175 in the New England freshman championships last year...
...middle and heavyweight bouts, the two teams appear to be fairly well-matched. Captain Bob Claflin is making his debut as a heavy, having wrestled at 175 last year, and should be able to take care of Bading. The outcome of the match may well depend on how the lower weight battles come...