IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A note accompanying the glove reads: ...

In the annals of boxing's greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

Gene Tunney, boxer – Tunney twice defeated Jack Dempsey in heavyweight title matches that drew more than 100,000 fans. In one of those, he got up from the canvas in the famous "Long Count" match.

FRANKFURT — Boxing must come under federal control, and its administrator must not be a former boxer, manager or promoter, former world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney advocated Friday. "There is ...

Polly Lauder Tunney, 100, the Carnegie Steel heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines, died April 12 at her home in Stamford, Conn. No cause of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These boxing gloves were worn by ...