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Leo Houck - A Biography of Boxing's Uncrowned Middleweight Champion (Paperback)
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Leo Houck - A Biography of Boxing's Uncrowned Middleweight Champion (Paperback)
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Readers searching for an authentic American success story will
appreciate this biography about Leo F. Houck, a premier
middleweight boxer of the early 1900s, Penn State boxing coach, and
devoted family from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Leo F. Houck became a
professional boxer during his adolescence at age fourteen while
many of his contemporaries started their life-long employment in
the mills, farms, and factories of Lancaster County. He gave the
purses he earned to his widowed mother in order to support his six
siblings after his father Edward, passed away at age fifty. There
was nothing overtly glamorous about Leo's boxing career until 1911,
when he earned the largest payday of his career with a twenty round
victory over Harry Lewis in Paris. Leo reached the pinnacle of his
career in 1913, when he was poised to capture the middleweight
championship title. His two hundred fights are all described in
this biography making it uniquely different from most boxing
biographies, which typically focus on a finite number of key fights
during a boxers' career. Leo coached boxing at Penn State after his
retirement from prize fighting. Over the next twenty-seven years,
Leo transformed Penn State into an intercollegiate boxing
powerhouse and clearly established himself as Penn State's first
legendary coach.
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