Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn finished behind Harvard in team standings, followed by defending champion Princeton...
Once again, the reputation of the National League was safe. After five months and 800-odd games, the league was still struggling to find a champion all last week. Not that there was any dearth of pretenders...
...clinched last place in the American League for the first time in 54 years. And the Chicago Cubs, managed by Leo Durocher, wound up in the National League cellar-thereby proving that it is not necessarily the nice guy who finishes last. Manager Hank Bauer of the American League champion Baltimore Orioles disproved another notion: that pay is related to performance. Bauer, who gave Baltimore its first pennant in 69 years, signed a new two-year contract for an estimated $50,000 a year-$25,000 less than the last-place Yanks pay their manager, Ralph Houk...
...floor, a bespectacled bear of a man scribbles furiously on a note pad. It is some time between midnight and 4 a.m., the hours that James Thompson Prothro Jr. calls his "thinking hours." It could be chess that Tommy Prothro is thinking about: he is a tournament champion. Or bridge: he collects master points. Or business: he is heir to a Memphis real estate fortune, owns two soft-drink bottling plants in Oregon. But right now he is trying to decide whether to counteract a strong-side blitz with a sweep or a Sprint-H. Football is Tommy...
Harvard, undefeated and the Eastern champion last spring, should rate as co-favorites with Princeton and Yale for the tournament. With Charlie Hoevler back again, Dartmouth will be seeking individual honors in the top singles and doubles competition...