Leo Houck : a biography of boxing's uncrowned middleweight champion / Randy L. Swope.

By:

Swope, Randy L [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781476634630

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GV1132 .L464 2019

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	GV1132.68 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1083096519

"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"--

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.

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