Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anchor. The sparring contests will be spirited and interesting. The weights are not the same as those used in the national contests, but the weights used by Harvard and Technology have been adopted as the standard: Feather-weight, 125 lbs. and under; light-weight, 140 lbs. and under; middleweight, 160 lbs. and under; heavy-weight, all over 160 pounds. Three entries are already assured from Harvard. The greatest interest centres about the middle weight sparring. Among the probable entries are: Curtis, Harvard, '90, who will enter if able, and Shockley, whom Curtis met and defeated last year...
...said that the heavy and middleweight sparring events will have but few entries this year...
FINAL BOUT OF THE MIDDLE-WEIGHT SPARRING.The final bout of the middleweight sparring brought out the winner of the first bout, Mr. Woodbury, and Mr. J. J. Colony who had drawn a bye. The first round was pretty evenly contested, neither man gaining any decided advantage. Woodbury seemed somewhat tired from his former bout, but did most of the leading and kept Colony on the defence most of the time. The latter, however, proved himself the better in close fighting. The second round was hotly contested, Woodbury tried several times to hit Colony a round-arm blow, but almost every...
MIDDLE-WEIGHT WRESTLING.The next contest in order was the middleweight sparring. Colony, '85, drew the bye, and left Smith, '86, and Woodbury, '86, to contest. The men were evenly matched, Woodbury seeming somewhat the larger of the two. The first round was well contested. The fighting was begun by Woodbury, who did most of the leading. After some preliminary sparring, the men got hard at work. Smith showed some good countering, but Woodbury, quick as a cat, hit him heavily several times. The round ended in favor of Woodbury...
...TUG-OF-WAR.After the middleweight sparring was concluded, the crowd began to elbow and push itself forward, and the same scene of confusion that was seen a year ago was again witnessed. There was a good deal of excitement over this event. The freshman had great confidence in their team, and although the sophomore team had been greatly changed during the last few days owing to the absence of its anchor, nevertheless the sophomores felt a good deal of confidence that their team would be the winning one. The teams were as follows...