Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Navy, who has won 29 straight lacrosse games and has been the national champion for six years, outclassed Harvard, 15-1, on Wednesday, in a game that Davis feels is best forgotten. The Harvard players, after traveling all morning, simply were not prepared for the tremendous talent of the Navy team...
Bookmakers dismissed the fight as a mismatch and refused to take bets. Still, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, insisted he was really worried by Challenger Zora Folley, a 34-year-old pug who had already been beaten by Sonny Listen, Henry Cooper and Ernie Terrell-all of whom Clay had kayoed. "I'm scared," said Cassius. "Anything can happen...
...Guam. Column after column chronicled the comeback attempt of Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, 38, who underwent surgery for a circulatory blockage after a sorry 2-5 season in 1966. Ford was not going to sign his 1967 contract until he tested his repaired arm in spring training; the World Champion Baltimore Orioles bombed him for nine hits and five runs in three innings, but against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Whitey went five innings and allowed just one run. So Ford signed...
...White Sox are singing the praises of Walter ("No Neck") Williams, a runty (5 ft. 6 in.) outfielder who hit .330 through four minor-league seasons. The Red Sox are high on Outfielder Reggie Smith, last year's batting champion (at .320) in the Class AAA International League...
Howie Henjyoji, 123-lb. champion in last weekend's New England AAU tournament, dropped down to 115 lbs. for the nationals and was eliminated in the first round by Steve Kavanaugh of Mississippi...