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Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel was born on October 1, 1874 in W. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Emily (Drexel) Biddle.
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Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel was born on October 1, 1874 in W. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Emily (Drexel) Biddle.
Educated private school, Philadelphia, and Heidelberg, Germany.
An officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea. He was considered not just an expert in fighting, but also a pioneer of United States Marine Corps training in the bayonet and hand-to-hand combat. He based his style on fencing, though this approach was sometimes criticized as being unrealistic for military combat.
Having joined the Marines in 1917 at the age of 41, he also convinced his superiors to include boxing in Marine Corps recruit training. In 1919, he was promoted to the rank of major, and became a lieutenant colonel in 1934. In Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, right outside of Philadelphia, Biddle opened a military training facility, where he trained 4,000 men. His training included long hours of calisthenics and gymnastics, and taught skills such as machete, saber, dagger, and bayonet combat, as well as hand grenade use, boxing, wrestling, savate and jiujitsu. He also served two years in the National Guard.
A keen boxer, Biddle sparred with Jack Johnson and taught boxing to Gene Tunney. He even hosted "boxing teas" in his home, where other boxers would spar a couple of rounds with him and then join the family for dinner. A February 1909 match with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was attended by society leaders including women in elegant evening gowns.
He served as a judge in the fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard on 4 July 1919. On the 5th of February 1920, Joseph Drexel-Biddle, as chairman of the « Army Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control », of New-York, accepts the principle of membership in the International Boxing Union.
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Served in France as captain United States Marine Corps, 1918. Fellow Royal Geographical Society. Member Societe Archeologique de France.
Amateur boxing champion.
Married Cordelia Rundell Bradley, June 11, 1895.