Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players, who helped rank Harvard second in the Ivy League standings, were voted positions on the team at a meeting of New England coaches. High-scoring players like Don Louria and Whoop Batchelder did not make the champion team...
...week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Bulldog & Champagne. Kirkland, the champion Harvard house, was matched against Yale's best, Berkeley College. Before the game was over, half the Harvard team had paused for either a smoke or a beer: it was that kind of game. Kirkland won, 21-12. But before the sun went down on the Charles River, seven Yale college teams had beaten Harvard teams. That night in Boston nightspots, the strains of Bulldog, Bulldog drowned out Fair Harvard, possibly because Yale men go in more for that sort of thing...
...unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...
Seven of the eight Ivy League colleges are represented on the team selected yesterday by the Associated Press with the help of the Ivy coaches. Cornell, League champion, places two men, as do Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton supply one man each, while Brown is unrepresented...