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...match, John Watkins pinned Art Landy of Amherst, using a body press with a reverse half-nelson, at 5:18. Watkins had to escape a dangerous situation before winning, as Landy almost pinned him with a leg and chancery hold. Crimson heavyweight Bob Wynne scored the other pin for the varsity, finishing off Ken Wood with a cradle hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Win, 28-5, Over Amherst Team | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...Foster maintained his four-year winning streak whipping Sid Bixler 12 to 4 at 177 lbs., but missing at least three opportunities to pin his opponent. Wrestling at 157 lbs., captain Joe Noble pulled out a close 5-2 decision against Amhert's Wade Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Win, 28-5, Over Amherst Team | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...against King Holmes in the 167-lb. division. The only Crimson defeat of the afternoon came at 147 lbs., when former Pennsylvania high school champ Bob Thompson outclassed the varsity's Nick Estabrook by a decisive 15-6 margin. Estabrook was in trouble twice, each time narrowly averting a pin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Win, 28-5, Over Amherst Team | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...lone pin of the afternoon, which turned out to be the decisive factor, was scored by Princeton captain Bill Macaleer--perhaps the best wrestler to visit the I.A.B this year--over King Holmes with just 18 seconds remaining in the match. Dave Skeels, John Watkins and Tom Hill all dropped decisions to their Tiger opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Defeats Wrestlers, 14-12, Although Foster Cops Seventh Win | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...number of interesting critical tenets. To qualify as an Advocate editor, a young man chooses as parents second-generation nouveaux, preferably the youngest and thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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