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Word: champion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which by all rights should have defeated Harvard last year and the year before, finally pulled the big one yesterday, 5-4. Princeton, which came within two points of losing to Navy last Saturday, ended Harvard's 47-match winning streak and four-year reign as national intercollegiate team champion...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Princeton Stuns Harvard Squash Team, 5-4 | 2/10/1966 | See Source »

...upset came in the 60-yard high hurdles where Dartmouth sophomore Gordon Rule nosed out defending Heptagonal champion Tony Lynch. The winning time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burns Shatters Mark for 1000; Trackmen Win | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

...Tigers, playing a spoiler's role in the Ivy League this winter, would like nothing better than to avenge their earlier loss and add a Crimson notch to a stock that already has marked on it the Ivy upset of the year, 6 to 5 over defending champion Brown...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Varsity Sextet Travels to Princeton, Looks for Second Victory in League | 2/2/1966 | See Source »

...Cattle Baron. But that wasn't all. As a byproduct, Hammer's distilleries made a mash that Hammer sold to cattle-feed manufacturers. This got Hammer interested in cattle, and he stocked his Red Bank, N.J., farm with prize Angus, including a giant champion bull named Prince Eric. "The cattle business turned out to be a bonanza," says Hammer. "In the three years remaining of his life, Prince Eric sired 2,000 calves. That one bull earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: You See an Opportunity . . . | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Naturally, that put East Coach Red Auerbach in something of a bind. In real life, Red coaches the World Champion Boston Celtics-and three of his Celtics were playing for the East. Since the game was in Cincinnati, Auerbach bent over backwards to be fair, care fully parceled out equal court time to each of the East players. "There's only one ball, fellows," Red sighed unhappily. "You've got to remember the spot I'm in." Auerbach's Celtic star Bill Rus sell, who drives an $11,500 Mercedes-Benz, did his bit to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Basketball: Wheels Within Wheels | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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