- Charlie Mohr
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Charlie Mohr was a middleweight college boxer for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He died April 17, 1960 of a brain hemorrhage following an NCAA Tournament bout. Twenty-two days after Charlie Mohr's death the University of Wisconsin–Madison abolished the sport at UW–Madison. The NCAA soon followed Wisconsin's lead, officially ending their support of the national boxing tournament in late 1960 and unofficially terminating the sport.[1]
Notes
- ^ http://badgerherald.com/sports/2004/04/29/badger_boxings_final.php (downloaded 20 October 2009).
Further reading
Moe, Doug. Lords of the Ring. Madison; University of Wisconsin–Madison Press, 2005.
External links
- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2000/april/boxing.php (dead link).
Copied at http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5742592_ITM (downloaded 20 October 2009). - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1071184/1/index.htm (downloaded 20 October 2009).
- http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_4a56a5e8-012c-580d-bde9-21361d66b3a4.html
- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/04/16/mohr/index.html?eref=si_latest
Categories:- Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing
- 1960 deaths
- Sports deaths in Wisconsin
- American boxing biography stubs
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