Joseph Nolan; Golden Gloves Boxing Champion

Joseph Nolan, 85, a Golden Gloves boxing champion in the 1930s, died Sunday of cancer in Peabody, Mass.

Nolan fought as a flyweight and won 160 of 168 fights. He captured the national Amateur Athletic Union 126-pound title in 1933 and the Golden Gloves title three times between 1934 and 1938.

He was awarded a boxing scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, but the school dropped the sport eight days after he arrived on campus.

Nolan graduated in 1939 and served in the Army during World War II. He went to Boston University Law School at night and passed the Massachusetts bar in 1955.