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As for football being banned, the only reason boxing was is because interest in it waned. If there were millions of dollars to be made from it in high schools, there would be boxing in high schools too.

College boxing was banned after a Wisconsin boxer in 1960 slipped into a coma and died 8 days after a national championship bout with an SJSU boxer.  The previous year a Texas A&M player died after a bout.  Wisconsin, the nation's leading boxing college, pulled the plug, and the NCAA followed on its heels. 

San Jose State won the last three team boxing championships in 58, 59, and 60.  But it was no consolation for Stu Bardell, the SJSU boxer who delivered the blow. 

“All I could think of was why?” Bartell told the Mercury News in 2001. “Why was I picked to land that lethal blow? People told me that it wasn’t my fault, but they weren’t in my shoes.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/02/09/o...ack-clock/

Boxing fielded 20 teams in 1959, down from a peak of 55 in 1948, so it is true that its popularity was waning.  But the reason its popularity was waning had to do with growing concerns over health, and the two deaths confirmed those fears and put an end to it.

Stanford had a boxing team right up to the end, under coach Ray Lunny--later inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.  Stanford student Ed Rothman placed second in his division at the last championships in 1960.

[81alum]

As for football being banned, the only reason boxing was is because interest in it waned. If there were millions of dollars to be made from it in high schools, there would be boxing in high schools too.

College boxing was banned after a Wisconsin boxer in 1960 slipped into a coma and died 8 days after a national championship bout with an SJSU boxer.  The previous year a Texas A&M player died after a bout.  Wisconsin, the nation's leading boxing college, pulled the plug, and the NCAA followed on its heels. 

San Jose State won the last three team boxing championships in 58, 59, and 60.  But it was no consolation for Stu Bardell, the SJSU boxer who delivered the blow. 

“All I could think of was why?” Bartell told the Mercury News in 2001. “Why was I picked to land that lethal blow? People told me that it wasn’t my fault, but they weren’t in my shoes.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/02/09/o...ack-clock/

Boxing fielded 20 teams in 1959, down from a peak of 55 in 1948, so it is true that its popularity was waning.  But the reason its popularity was waning had to do with growing concerns over health, and the two deaths confirmed those fears and put an end to it.

Stanford had a boxing team right up to the end, under coach Ray Lunny--later inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.  Stanford student Ed Rothman placed second in his division at the last championships in 1960.