Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodman, who quit Tuesday, will be sorely missed since he was the team's only 126 pound wrestler. "We're woefully weak at the lower weights." Lee said. "It is quite unlikely that we'll garner many victories in the 126-pound class...
...stood to reason that a 195-lb. amateur wrestler would have little chance against a 280-lb. bruiser with twelve years in the pro wrestling game. But that was not how the script read when Dr. Sam Sheppard made his debut against Wild Bill Scholl in a charity match in Waverly, Ohio. Seven minutes into the match Dr. Sam coolly jammed two fingers into Wild Bill's mouth and expertly pressed the mandibular nerve, which lies in the tender area under the tongue. Scholl instantly went limp with agony. Fall and match to Sheppard. "Only new thing...
...especially upsetting, seeing the crowd behave as if they were watching a Roman spectacle was frightening. After the Good Guy had pinned the Bad Guy (everyone knows in advance which is which), he would look to the crowd for its verdict. As the crowd roared its merciless answer, the wrestler-turned-gladiator let his opponent have it in the chest...
Riding back to the Square, I thought how disappointed I was by the evening. In remembered how much I used to enjoy wrestling when I watched it on T.V. as a kid. How funny I thought it was when a lady wrestler grabbed a cup of coffee from a spectator and scalded her opponent with it. I didn't find that so funny...
...this point, Harvard's dependable heavyweights usually supply the necessary victories. The wins did not materialize yesterday as three of the last four Crimson wrestler lost...