Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will only be the Crimson's second game of the season but soccer Coach Bruce Munro calls today's contest with defending Ivy champion Cornell the "crucial...
...game." He continued in this merry vein to rate Cornell "among the best four or five in the country. The only thing that's holding Lefty (Lefty James, the Cornell coach) back is his schedule." Cornell, this year, does not have the kind of opposition that makes a national champion...
...these clouds gathered, and by their darkness showed grave indeed might be the consequence, should the factions among the multitude prevail when the two contestants, each a champion himself, met on the field of challenge...
...speed is phenomenal. Clay Hopper, manager of the Royals, said that Jethroe is a better base stealer than Jackie Robinson, another Montreal alumnus. Last June, Buzzy Bavasi, the eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...
...Meat. In Lewiston, Idaho, Cowboy Gene Rambo, onetime world champion broncobuster and bulldogger, suffered his first injury of the season: a wrenched knee while playing golf...