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The Detroit Athletic Club (often referred to as the DAC) is a private social club and athletic club located in the heart of Detroit's theater, sports, and ...
Kronk Gym is a boxing gym located in Detroit, once led by trainer Emanuel Steward. [1] It was run out of the basement of the oldest recreation center of the City of Detroit, and became a household word in the sport of boxing [2] and its gold shorts a magnet to young talent following the enormous success and high profile of multiple World Champion and Boxing Hall of Famer Thomas "The Hitman ...
It is one of four premier amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur welterweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials. It was contested at 147lbs until 2002 when it was ...
1935, July 8: National AAU swim meet crowns Detroit natives Dirk Degener springboard diving champ, Jimmy Gilhula 220-yard free style champ, and Johnny Higgins 220-yard breast stroke champ. The Detroit Athletic Club won team championship. [29] 1935, August 17: Gar Wood Jr wins national outboard sweepstakes regatta in Class A.
Michael Charles Murphy (February 26, 1860 – June 4, 1913) was an American athletic trainer and coach at Yale University (1887–1889, 1892–1896, 1901–1905), Detroit Athletic Club (1889–1892), University of Michigan (1891), Villanova University (1894), University of Pennsylvania (1896–1901, 1905–1913), and the New York Athletic Club ...
Census records indicate he was unmarried and living in Detroit with his brother Stuart and sister Beatrice in 1910 and with his sister Beatrice Utley in 1920 and 1930. [21] [22] [23] Utley was a member of the First Congregational Church, a Mason, and a member of the Detroit Athletic Club. [2]
It is one of four premier amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur bantamweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials. 1888 - W. Rocap, Philadelphia, PA
The Detroit Shock practice at Joe Louis Arena before Game 5 of the 2006 WNBA Finals. Joe Louis Arena was an arena in Downtown Detroit . Completed in 1979 at a cost of US$57 million as a replacement for Olympia Stadium , it sat adjacent to Cobo Center on the bank of the Detroit River and was accessible by the Joe Louis Arena station on the ...