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Joe Savoldi

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Joseph Anthony "Joe" Savoldi Jr., more commonly known by his nickname "Jumping Joe" Savoldi (March 5, 1908 – January 25, 1974) was an Italian-born American football player, professional wrestler, and Special Ops agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII. [1]

41 relations: Abe Coleman, All-America, American football, Arthritis, Billy Sandow, Bobo Brazil, Carnegie Mellon University, Castano Primo, Chicago Bears, Chicago Stadium, Cloak and Dagger (1946 film), Curly Lambeau, Dialect, Dropkick, Ed Lewis (wrestler), Ernie Nevers, Expulsion (education), Fullback (gridiron football), Gary Cooper, George Halas, Goal line (gridiron football), Henderson County High School, Henderson, Kentucky, Jim Londos, Kezar Stadium, Knute Rockne, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, National Wrestling Association, New Zealand, Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, Notre Dame Stadium, Office of Strategic Services, Professional wrestling, Rationing, Red Grange, Shoot (professional wrestling), Three Oaks, Michigan, Touchdown, University of Notre Dame, World War II, Yankee Stadium.

Abe Coleman

Abe Kelmer / Abba Kelmer (September 20, 1905 – March 28, 2007) was a Polish professional wrestler, promoter and referee, known by the ring names Abe Coleman, Hebrew Hercules, and Jewish Tarzan.

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All-America

An All-America team is a hypothetical American sports team composed of outstanding amateur players.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Billy Sandow

Wilhelm Baumann (September 4, 1884 – September 15, 1972), better known as Billy Sandow, was an American professional wrestler and promoter.

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Bobo Brazil

Houston Harris (July 10, 1924 – January 20, 1998) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Bobo Brazil.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Castano Primo

Castano Primo is a city and comune in Province of Milan, in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Stadium

Chicago Stadium was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois that opened in 1929 and closed in 1994.

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Cloak and Dagger (1946 film)

Cloak and Dagger is a 1946 film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Gary Cooper.

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Curly Lambeau

Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was a professional American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Dropkick

A dropkick is an attacking maneuver in professional wrestling.

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Ed Lewis (wrestler)

Robert Herman Julius Friedrich (June 30, 1891 – August 8, 1966), better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler.

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Ernie Nevers

Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1903 – May 3, 1976), sometimes known by the nickname "Big Dog", was an American football and baseball player and football coach.

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Expulsion (education)

Expulsion, permanent exclusion, withdrawing, or kicked out of school refers to the removal/banning of a student from a school system or university for an extensive period of time due to a student persistently violating that institution's rules, or for a single offense of appropriate severity in extreme cases.

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Fullback (gridiron football)

A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.

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George Halas

George Stanley Halas Sr. (February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr.

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Goal line (gridiron football)

The goal line is the chalked or painted line dividing the end zone from the field of play in American football and Canadian football.

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Henderson County High School

Henderson County High School (HCHS) is the only high school in Henderson County, Kentucky and is among the largest high schools in Kentucky, with nearly 2000 students enrolled in grades 9 - 12 each year.

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Henderson, Kentucky

Henderson is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River in Henderson County in western Kentucky in the United States.

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Jim Londos

Christos Theofilou (Χρήστος Θεοφίλου; January 2, 1897 – August 19, 1975), better known as "The Golden Greek" Jim Londos (Greek: Δημήτρης Λόντος), was a Greek American professional wrestler.

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Kezar Stadium

Kezar Stadium is an outdoor athletics stadium in San Francisco, California, located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park.

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Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.

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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is an American outdoor sports stadium located in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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National Wrestling Association

The National Wrestling Association was an early professional wrestling sanctioning body created in 1930 by the National Boxing Association (NBA) (now the World Boxing Association, WBA) as an attempt to create a governing body for professional wrestling in the United States.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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Notre Dame Stadium

Notre Dame Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana, the home field of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Rationing

Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand.

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Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees.

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Shoot (professional wrestling)

A shoot in professional wrestling is any unplanned, unscripted, or real-life occurrence within a wrestling event.

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Three Oaks, Michigan

Three Oaks is a village in Three Oaks Township, Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Touchdown

A touchdown is a means of scoring in both American and Canadian football.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in the Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Savoldi

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