One of our vice-principals in Jr. High back in the 70s (Washington Jr. High, Naperville Il) named Mr. Rossi ref-ed boxing matches between students, and encouraged any students who wanted to fight to come to him and he’d ensure that is was fair and safe. Brilliant, except I don’t think he considered the liability risk to which he was exposing the school.
Back in the day Catholic Schools would do this, sometimes the priest would teach the kids how to box.
Usually also the end result was the students who boxed each other became friends.
Back in the 70s liability wasn’t the issue it is today.......I too attended high school in the 70s.
Our dean of boys carried a 24 inch fiberglass paddle with holes drilled in it to increase speed, tucked into the back of his pants. Looking back on it he was a bit too eager to use that thing sometimes going out of his way to find reasons.
And he did know how to use it.
One of many things that warranted the use was fighting......using violence to punish violence........45 years later and I still can’t work that out.