Word: wrestlers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided development once so common with athletic specialists. It must not be forgotten, however, that there is a development peculiar to the runner, jumper, wrestler, oarsmen, ball player, etc., and anyone familiar with athletics at the present day, can easily recognize one of these specialists...
...above-named. Flanders, 162 lbs., Parrott, 176 lbs., Peters, 174 lbs., and Hyndman, 180 lbs., rowed last year, and Hobbs, 175 lbs., was substitute. Of the new men, Storrs is a prominent foot-ball rusher and a powerful anchor in class tugs ; Scott is a heavy-weight wrestler, and Cowles is a foot-ball rusher and heavy-weight sparer ; all have pulled in class races. The new men are rather light and a New Haven report says that the average of all will be 166-167 lbs., 5 or 6 pounds lighter than the crew of last year...
...first event called was the middleweight sparring between Mr. Bangs, L. S. S., and Mr. Gormley. Mr. Bangs has hitherto been known only as a successful wrestler. He was lighter than his opponent but sparred pluckily and well. Gormley won after a close contest...
...John Wise, "The first great American democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people not to comply with that...
Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down...