Leo Houck : a biography of boxing's uncrowned middleweight champion /
Swope, Randy L.,
Leo Houck : a biography of boxing's uncrowned middleweight champion / Randy L. Swope. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Growing up in Cabbage-Hill -- Turning professional at fourteen -- Winning at home 1905/1906/1907 -- Lightweight champion of Lancaster County 1908/1909 -- From lightweight to middleweight in twenty-eight bouts 1910 -- "Vive la Leo" 1911 -- Top of the heap 1912/1913 -- Baseball, the blahs, and catchweight battles 1914/1915/1916 -- Light heavyweight sensation 1917/1918 -- Greb and Gibbons give Leo fits 1919 -- Grandpa draws with Tunney 1920 -- Leo and Jack Dempsey 1921 -- "TriunFo en Cuba" 1922 -- Penn State's first legendary coach -- Leo and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission -- Appendix : Leo F. Hauck's professional fight record.
"While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14. This biography details Houck's early years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his long career in the ring--including 200 fights--and his 27 years as Penn State's legendary boxing coach"--
9781476634630
Houck, Leo F. 1888-1950.
Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.
Electronic Books.
GV1132 / .L464 2019
Leo Houck : a biography of boxing's uncrowned middleweight champion / Randy L. Swope. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Growing up in Cabbage-Hill -- Turning professional at fourteen -- Winning at home 1905/1906/1907 -- Lightweight champion of Lancaster County 1908/1909 -- From lightweight to middleweight in twenty-eight bouts 1910 -- "Vive la Leo" 1911 -- Top of the heap 1912/1913 -- Baseball, the blahs, and catchweight battles 1914/1915/1916 -- Light heavyweight sensation 1917/1918 -- Greb and Gibbons give Leo fits 1919 -- Grandpa draws with Tunney 1920 -- Leo and Jack Dempsey 1921 -- "TriunFo en Cuba" 1922 -- Penn State's first legendary coach -- Leo and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission -- Appendix : Leo F. Hauck's professional fight record.
"While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation at age 14. This biography details Houck's early years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his long career in the ring--including 200 fights--and his 27 years as Penn State's legendary boxing coach"--
9781476634630
Houck, Leo F. 1888-1950.
Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.
Electronic Books.
GV1132 / .L464 2019