Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scutcheon, lost the light heavyweight championship of the world in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day to Mike McTigue, third-rate American fighter. In the 17th round of the scheduled 20, the Senegalese faltered about the ring, groggy before McTigue's punches, finally falling into a clinch to hug himself safe from a knockout. The American received the decision on points...
...year, finally losing to the Dartmouth combination 1-0. The following Saturday the team was able to nose out the strong Princeton sextet with two goals in the final period, tying the series. Three days later the Crimson was again called upon to play an uphill game to clinch the Tiger series with a 1-0 victory. With the Yale defeat on Saturday and another Blue contest to play tomorrow, the Crimson team will have consecutively gone through five of the hardest games of the season...
Scoring an unexpected goal in the first period, the University sextet was barely able to turn back the repeated attacks of the powerful Princeton combination and to clinch the annual series with a 1-0 victory at the Arena last night. Time and again the speedy Tiger forwards swept down deep in the Crimson territory raining shots at Bigelow, but with flawless precision he turned them away. Repeatedly the brunt of the attack fell upon his shoulders and there were times when a score from a scrimmage seems imminent but he always managed to relieve the situation momentarily with...
...third clinch this season between the Crimson and the Green will take place today, when the Dartmouth soccer men invade Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock. Misfortunes have strewn the path of the University this year, for three of the best players have been permanently forced to leave the line-up: Eldridge, with a broken wrist; Lamont with a bad knee; and Byington with a badly sprained ankle. Nacessarily the line-up has been much changed-during the past week...
...pole-vault and shot-put are both more promising from the Crimson point of view than the jumps. Coach Farrell hopes to have Davis, his premier vaulter, in good condition and if this is the case the University should clinch five points. The consensus of opinion would give second place to Sheldon of M. I. T., but Gratwick has shown great improvement this year, winning the event in the triangular meet with a vault of 11 feet 6 inches. Reidy, moreover, has cleared 11 feet and may possibly give Sheldon or Gratwick a hard struggle. In the shot...