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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476634630
  • 1476634637
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV1132.68
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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"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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