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| Date: | 04 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men smelt wrestling at the Smelt Carnival in Marinette. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself. |
| Date: | 03 14 1981 |
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| Description: | Onlookers watch as participants flail around in a mud pit wrestling ring. One spectator wears a bird costume. |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of bystanders gathered in front of the tent of Jimmy Demetral's Wrestling Arena on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, as male w... |
| Date: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, throwing Officer Keith Ackley as part of a five-week course in ju-jitsu for 55 officers of the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, teaching Officer Robert O'Brien to do an "airplane spin" toss on Officer Keith Ackley. Fifty-five Madison Police Departme... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | The members of the U.W. football coaching staff are shown meeting with Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing champion during a dinner at the Park... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Three smiling men are posing in a pretend boxing stance at the Park Hotel. On the right is former world heavy weight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey. On the ... |
| Date: | 03 18 1952 |
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| Description: | The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity entry in the University of Wisconsin Campus Carnival was "Wild Bill's Rassling Tent". In the picture are wrestlers John ... |
| Date: | 04 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Walt Engelke (left), principal at Nakoma school, presents a large testimonial award certificate with many signatures honoring ex-wrestler Jimmy Demetral (r... |
| Date: | 02 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the coach, manager, and nine members of the Milwaukee South High School wrestling team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House... |
| Date: | 03 06 1955 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsins boxer Bobby Hinds, right, trades left jabs with Mike McMurty of Idaho State during the heavyweight bout of the University of Idaho... |
| Date: | 02 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Jim Stevens, Monona Grove High School, has Dick Goss, Ft. Atkinson, set up for the pin. The referee is Mal Kennedy. It was the 14th victory for undefeated ... |
| Date: | 02 14 1959 |
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| Description: | LaVerne Hack, Stoughton, earns riding time as Glenn Lewis struggles to get out from under a reversal. Hack remained undefeated for the season as a 114-poun... |
| Date: | 05 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Eight young men wearing suits pose in two rows. Pictured are some of the captains of Monona Grove High School athletic teams honored at their sixth annual ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral posing proudly between two large ornate trophies that he would provide and present annually to the player voted m... |
| Date: | 04 1939 |
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| Description: | A man, wearing galoshes, is standing in a sports ring and dumping fish out of a box labeled Lester Fisher Fisheries. People are in the background behind th... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral donating to a fund established for the welfare and education of the 3-month-old son of an Air Force p... |
| Date: | 12 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal sports editor Henry J. McCormick (left) accepts $150 cash from wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral for the paper's Empty Stock... |
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