Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norwood Cox, the new coach engaged by the ski team, has had much experience in both ski competitions and coaching and was formerly jumping and cross country champion of Grenoble, Switzerland. He has coached for six years in America and has entered indoor exhibitions at the Boston Garden and at Madison Square Garden in New York...
...Freshman squash team seems fairly strong this year, Harry Cowles revealed. About 30 Yardlings have signed up, including John R. Glidden, brother of Germain Glidden, national champion...
Dudley Hall, champion of the House touch football league, will take on the Yale winning sextet, Timothy Dwight college, is a tag football game on Soldiers Field at 10 o'clock this morning...
...full year, from January1 to December 31. During the current season, the two biggest money-winning U. S. race horses have been three-year-old War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), and four-year-old Seabiscuit, champion of the handicap division. Horse-race followers would have liked to see a match between them, but, failing that, were interested to see which would win most money for their respective owners, Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. Twice this season War Admiral and Seabiscuit have displaced each other...
Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills...