Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champion thanked his father and proceeded to send his best to "all my friends in Houston, my new home -- the Soul Brothers, Skip and Lee, and the Wild Man.' He also wished Dick Gregory luck in his campaign for mayor of Chicago...
...Folley was outclassed from the beginning. The only question was, When was Clay going to decide to put him down? "If I met him ten years ago," the champion said after the fight. "I know I would be in trouble." Clay would have been 15 then...
...champion's seventh title defense in 13 months, and Clay claimed he was as busy as Joe Louis at his prime. To show if he was as good as Louis, the TV station ran some old films after the fight of the Brown Bomber destroying big fat Tony Galento...
...Thayer is just 100 points behind Holworthy with 274.8; Matthews trails Thayer by three. Thayer won the swimming meet and finished third in basketball to mass the bulk of their winter points, while Matthews scored with seconds in basketball and wrestling and supplied over half the players for the champion West Yard hockey team...
N.Y.U., last year's team champion, found revenge by sweeping the three individual weapon titles. In sabre, Paul Apostol took all five of his final round bouts. Apostol beat Penn's Todd Makler after losing to him in the team sabre competition. Another junior, George Masin, beat Navy's Frank Hewitt and Penn's Ron McMahan in two fence-offs for the epee crown. The foil titlist--Mike Gaylor--is also a junior. N.Y.U. should be invincible next year...