The Washington times., 1937-01-07
CATHOLIC j. BOXING Team RATES AMONG j. S. BEST
LaFond
Boxes With
Prospects
By HARRY COSTELLO

Boxing develops initiative.
It teaches lessons of confidence,
clean-living, sportSmanShip and
quick thinking. Properly super
vised, boxing may be made an aid
in the development Of character.
Those are the beliefs of Cath
oic University athletic officials,
and as result annually the Car
dinals develop a varsity boxing
team which compares favorably
with any collegiate boxing group
in the nation.
Boxing at c. U. is very carefully
supervised. Although the Cards
have had boxing on a large scale
since 1924, or for 13 years, there
never has been a serious injury
to a c. U. boxer, varsity or 1ntra-
mural.
When a student of c. U. reports
for boxing he is first given a thor
ough physical examination. He
then is sent through a period of
excellent training before he is per.
mitted to box, even with mate.
He is taught the fundamentals of
boxing, both of attack and de.
fenSe, and when he has shown
aptitude in fundamentals he is
gradually advanced.
Each c. U. boxer, as soon as he
has passed through the prelimi-
nary period of training, puts on the
gloves with C. us coach, Eddie
LaFond, who tests the boxers
ability to protect himself and then
classifies the athlete as excellent,
good, fair or poor.
instruction to Need
Then the boxers are grouped in
their natural classes and given in
diVidual instruction commensurate
with their needs.
Coach LaFond constantly
watches his boxers. He makes
notes on the strengths and weak.
nesseS of the various youngsters
and then outlines for each a series
of instructional periods designed
to improve the individual.
AS result of the carefully de-
Veloped boxing program at c. U.
the Cardinals have varsity team
which rates tops, or near to tops,
in intercollegiate circles year after
year.
Contrary to the practice at
some colleges, C. U. never relin-
quishes its authority for personal
supervision over the boxer. The
coach'S word is law. Once a
student enrolls at C. u. and re-
ports for boxing, he is specifically
forbidden to box for any outside
organization, under any circum-
stances. Thus does C. U. exercise
complete control over the ring
activities of each student as long
as he is a student at C. U.
Indicate Fine Team
Indications are that the Cardi-
nails again this year will have a
fine boxing team. Last years
team won five and lost two meets.
The Cards lost to North Carolina
State and Duke, and won over
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech, Mary
land, Western Maryland and Cor
nell. This season the Cards again
meet N. C. State, Duke, Pitt, Tech,
Maryland and Western Maryland,
with Army and Miami tossed in
for good measure, making . total
of eight meets.
To go through this strong sched-
ule, Coach LaFond will have about
IS boxers available for intercolle-
giate duty. At the moment, due to
the holiday vacation. the C. U.
squad is reduced to eight boxers.
However, this condition will be
corrected tomorrow when post
holiday classes at c. U. commence.
1t is likely that Coach LaFond
will depend on the following box
ers in completing the hard Sched-
ule which confrontS c. u:
Dave Bernstein, 118 pounds;
Francis Guinan. 1876; Rene BENZ
tez and Nestor Martinez, both
Porto RicanS, 1876 pounds; Fred
Mix, 145 pounds; Joe BunSa, 1856;
Salvador "Sully" Greco, 1865;
Frank German, Ed Dunno and
John Caravelas, ITS; and Fred
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