Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group from which the two posts will be filed includes Stan Thompson, Ray Rogers, Andre Sigourney, sandy Jones, Tom Conners, and Kevin Reilly. Jones former Oklahoma scholastic champion, seems the most likely candidate for the 155-pound chores with either Thompson or Connors stepping...
...cover story gives him a chance to examine a sport, as well as a champion, in considerable detail. In the case of Ben Hogan, a number of people had to be seen before the story assumed its proper focus. After his five days with Hogan, whom he liked and respected, Smith invited the golfer and his wife to come out to the house the next time they were in New York City. However, he added a note of caution : "You may not want to after you've read the cover story." As of last week, it looked...
Harvard's undefeated freshman hockey team scrapped the all-win record of Arlington High, Greater Boston Interscholastic champion, winning 4 to 1 at the Arena last night...
...Mathias, who outran, out-jumped, and out-threw 34 of the world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran a close second to baseball's highly professional Lou Boudreau in the poll for the year's No. 1 male athlete...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...