Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before adjourning for the week Congress settled one extracurricular issue when Representative Fred Bradley, from Michigan's smelt-fishing eleventh district, revived the prewar fish-gulping contest. The winner: Ohio's 250-lb. Representative Clarence Brown, who unseated Former Champion Jesse Wolcott of Michigan. His performance: a claimed total of 51 fried smelts (20-odd by newsmen's count...
Walt Budke, pivot man of the champion Columbia Lions and holder of individual scoring honors, was the only unanimous selection in being named center of the first team. Rounding out this quintet with himself and Mariaschin are forwards Tony Lavelli of Yale and Chink Crossin of Penn, and Dartmouth's EdLeede at guard...
...shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...
Meanwhile, at New Haven, the Lowell quintet will try to emulate the recent Crimson Varsity performance against the Elis, when they tackle the champion Branford College five. Paul Haskell, Walt Coulson, Dana Bresnahan, Mike Post, and high-scorer Fred Donahoe will carry a nine game Lowell winning streak into the fray...
...crutches since the eve of the Yale meet, will be ready for action by April first and his return will case the responsibility of Harvey Thayer. Read will also help out Captain Wes Flint in the 110-yard high and 220-yard low hurdles, as will Pat McCormick, Interscholastic champion from Cleveland. Flint, third in the IC4A Indoor 60-yard highs, and considered unbeatable in the 220 lows outdoors, will continue his rivalry with Yale's Cook and Finlay on the cinders...