Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hewlett has been slowed by injuries and hasn't won a race yet this fall, and the team's hones for an individual champion rest with the captain. Allen, At least eight runners, however, are going to make it tough for him. Bennett Flax and Bob Conway of Columbia beat Allen over this game course early in the season. Lynn Cunningham of Cornell won his team's dual meet with Army, and that makes him a number one contender today since the Army team includes IC4A mile champion Jim Warner...
...Selukwe high school, young Ian paid little attention to his studies, but was a champion sprinter and captain of his cricket, tennis and rugby teams. (Noted his school magazine: "Good on attack, but does not always time his passes well.") An R.A.F. fighter pilot during the war, he was shot down on a strafing mission over North Africa, escaped with a broken leg and a badly mutilated face. After plastic surgery in Cairo, he emerged with a drooping right eyelid, an immobile expression, and a brand-new face that the surgeon might almost have copied from pictures of Gary Cooper...
...August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling for $5,000. Aghast at his blunder, Belmont tried to reproduce the champion that got away. He mated Mahubah to Fair Play all over again and was rewarded with My Play, who won only nine minor races in four years...
...offers to come East to college. And any time the Tigers bog down within 40 yds. or so of pay dirt, they can always call on the services of Charlie Gogolak. Like his brother Pete, who boots field goals and extra points for the American Football League's champion Buffalo Bills, Charlie kicks the ball soccer-fashion, with his instep rather than his toe-and he already holds practically every college place-kicking record. So far this season, he has booted 25 straight points after touchdown, 15 field goals (longest: 54 yds.) in 19 tries, ranks No. 1 among...
...Brooklyn where he had pushed his first flipper, never dreaming that someday he would be standing on the brink of greatness. He was thinking of his mother and father, who more than anything else in the world had wanted their little boy to grow up to be a pinball champion...