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•• s far as boxing is concern~d, the year 1935-1936 is one of those A years that must necessarily happen in any sport. These "off years" seem to circulate in all athletic circles and return with regularity to plague each team, school, and athlete just after a very successful season. The boxing season can best be summed up as one of building for the future and forgetting the results. Certainly no one, unless he were a radical optimist, would place the 1936 season in the category of success. This year the varsity had five meets scheduled with other colleges and universities in addition to competing in the Of these dual meets, the Terror ringmen won one, tied one, three. In addition, the Freshman team journeyed to Lcckhaven Teachers Col- lege in Pennsylvania and took the decision from the future profs At the outset of the season, ring prospects looked pretty good. Four members of the 1935 team had departed, but the remaining quartet were veterans of known quality. Charley Havens, who took over the coaching of the minsters following Dick Harlow's transfer to Harvard, had two excellent men in the lower weights and two more in the upper "Bob" Bennett, a fast, hard-punching 115 pounder, was back for his last year of boxing. Rusteberg, 125 pound boxer of 1935. and all the various men who fought in the lightweight class were lost through graduation. But in the welterweight class there was Rodman Haynes. a devastating puncher but a man dogged by a hard luck jinx "Chuck" Kaddy, "Don" Keyser, "Andy" Gorski, and "Bernie" Kaplan. all men who had made history in the squared circle for Western Maryland, had faced their last collegiate opponents. Nevertheless the 175 pound class and the heavy- weight division were represented by capable men. "Tony" Ortenzi. the former Southern High School boy with the granite jaw, graduated into the vacancy left by the mighty Kaplan. And in the heavyweight class K"'c/;ng Kline. Warman. Skeen Brooks. Willoughby Standing Mgr. Brennan. Spiegle. ~~~el~~frc~~:a~::~~;owe. t:lW •• ~ 122