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Boxin(Xrct aculaiBrief at WVUB- v • J . r F New York, Duquesnc, W. J.,brief • to:-.' on West Virginia anlt;* ^u,8ers*linnW u * VThemoreryirti.i-h et.c program. 1930 11 v l/V •flourishedTwo WVU teams went undented. The 1933 squad posted here a 9-0 record, the 1936 unit wongrm cr om■ a dozen years, ar.d s x matches and tied two others.Mountaineer boxers facedh * l* ^ rY fthe most popular # i• \t fKTw.stKh opponents as Army, Navy, oi me winter penn state, Michigan State,• lei a a ay d-r., Duke, Kentucky, Miami of Florid ^ar xi. jida, and Wisconsin outside theVirginia produced three conference.anJuBrin1996na* ■ box r.g champions in Pete Puglia, who never com-3:.;no.’ Sam L rtiepage peted in the NCAA tournament, a 7y Dickerson. won every on eof his fight? over••o von me 115-pound title a three-year period in the 115e NCAA tournament in and 125-pound classes.Two vears later Littlepagewon :Fe i 65-pound champion- So did Dickerson as a heavy-- D.cker^on took t h e weight. He dominated thatheavyweight Crown in the NCAA class so much that he had trou-tve: hie getting opponents in dualmeets.Mountaineer teams dominated for most of the 1930s the East- Another WVU standout, Geneera Boxing Conference that In- Tudor, lost one regular season eluded Pitt, Temple, Bucknell, bout*Carnegie ~ ~ * ’ ‘ *defeat was a disputed decisionto national champion Omar Crocker of Wisconsin. His second year Tudor beat two-time national champion Gene Rankin of W.sconsin, before losing in the semi-finals of the NCAA tournament.Boxing was added to the -ports program in 1930 through the efforts of Eddie Vacheresse, football star who had fought as an amateur boxer around Wheeling. He became the coach, and held that position 10 years before retiring to practice medicine. His teams posted a 49-23-4 record.»115 - Puglia; 125 - Denver Welch; 135-Neely; 145 - Johnny Gallo; 155 - Littlepage; 165-Doug Voorhees; 175 . Charley Payne; heavyweight - D-.cke:-son.Boxing was dropped because of wartime conditions, b .t bvW ' wthen the Eastern Boxing Con ference virtually had dissolve; Pitt, Carnegie Tech and other natural rivals had abandonedthe sport already.No attempt was made to restore boxing at West Virgin: i after the war because of a lack of interest, and the scarcity o; possible opponents.Bill Neely, a 135 pound champion under Vacheresse, succeeded him for two years. Another graduated Mountaineer boxer, Russ Stoner, coached the last boxing team In 1942.All-Time TeamsIn BasketballVacheresse named as his all-;time Mountaineer team:Shows 373 Wins in Football(Continued From Page 18)ning fi\c of the last six games after Allen McCune moved into the quarterback job. They upset Virginia Tech and Kentucky, and in the finale attv.o touchdowns, the first on apass play covering 59 yards.McCune threw five t o u c h-down passes that day on the way to Mountaineer records.The Mountaineers turned er-ratic the rest of the season andtc-ry McCo'VT • lt;r ci T-trc-ic'd397George R396He -• / A-«3®rIOri399i N ec*e'900Jorn E n*190John E. Hil1902lCv s Yeager1903H. E. T ro-Jt904Arifhcny C^ex1906Ccrj Porkum19065-’ -0 3 7-25-4-16- -0 2 30 a 3: 3-2-07-4 07-1-06-3-0POST-WORLDWARIIJerry West6-31958-60Rod Hundley641955-57Mark Workman6-91950-52Rod Thorn641961-63Leland Byrd6-3194548t PRE-WORLD WARIIMarshall Glenn6-11928-30Ruay Baric6-3194042Joe Stydahar641933-36Scotty Hamilton5-10194143Jack Gocke6-31935-37c ____5 5-0A.A T\r
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Sunday Dominion-Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 10, 1967
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