Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stress fracture has probably finished Benjamin for the season. Benjamin developed rapidly this fall, and was beginning to remind cross country followers of his brother dyke, the 1958 Heps champion and an all-time Crimson great. His injury, ironically, is similar to the one that kept his brother out of winter track...
...through the right side of the West Virginia line in a scissor-like reverse. Twice, the sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.), sprinting Davis got away for touchdown runs of 57 and 29 yds. When the defense shifted to contain him, burly Fullback Art Baker, an intercollegiate wrestling champion who can run the 100 in 10.1 seconds, blasted up the middle as undefeated Syracuse steamrollered 589 yds. to a 44-0 victory...
...glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major in the 82nd Airborne, he had made combat jumps in Normandy and at the crossing of the Rhine, won the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart...
...organization in Britain that might be expected to slap a fine on Queen Elizabeth II did just that. The autocratic Jockey Club notified defaulting Member Elizabeth that she would have to pay up $140 for failing to notify the club at least three days before the running of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket that her colt, Above Suspicion, would not be in the race...
...lightweights, returned to Henley last June as the defenders of the Thames Cup, which they won for the first time the previous year. Like the heavies, coach Lawrence Coolidge's 'fifties were also undefeated when they left for England. Coolidge, who graduated in '58, was the Crimson singles champion of that year, when he tied the College singles record on the Charles. Last spring was his first season as a coach, and his enthusiasm and judgement seemed to compensate for any inexperience...