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Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium at 1515 J Street often served as a boxing venue. It is pictured here in 1935, readied to host a boxing match. The same year that this photograph was taken, the 3,500-seat building was host to the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Boxing Championship, pitting seven schools against one another. So popular was the event that several hundred people were turned away, making it – up to that time – the largest audience to ever view an event in the Memorial Auditorium. Out of the group, Washington State University finished first. Just seven years earlier, in November of 1928, California nearly outlawed boxing by vote of the people.
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