BOXER DIES AFTER COMA
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) OAKLAND (California). Al Robinson, a boxer who won a silver medal in the 1968 Olympic Games, has died after being in a coma for nearly three years. Robinson, who was 26, died at Fairmont Hospital. He was from Phoenix. Arizona. He developed as a boxer while in the United States Navy, fought as a feather-' weight in the Olympics, and turned professional in 1969. He collapsed during a workout in Oakland on April 30, 1971. He underwent several brain operations but never came out of the coma.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33445, 29 January 1974, Page 24
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