One Summer: America, 1927 (74 page)

Perhaps the most sensational sporting event of 1927 was the heavyweight title bout between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney at Chicago’s Soldier Field on September 27 before 150,000 people. Here Dempsey, having knocked down Tunney, finally makes it to a neutral corner during the still-controversial “long count.”
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