Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of the political geography of the state, it is helpful to draw a line from Chicago northward 200 miles to Green Bay, home of football's world champion Packers. Bring the line southwest 125 miles to Madison, the clean capital and university center, and then back southeast 125 miles to Chicago again...
This year's Ivy League Championship looks like a two-team race between Princeton and Pennsylvania. Harvard should be rated a strong possibility for third, along with defending champion Yale, but it must show great improvement before challenging the top two. Harvard has one distinct advantage--it plays both Princeton and Pennsylvania at home this year...
Semi-final winners play Saturday night for the NCAA crown, which defending champion U.C.L.A. has won three of the last four years...
Dick Fosbury of Oregon State dethroned defending champion Ted Downing of Miami of Ohio in the high jump. Fosbury, who jumps with his back facing the bar, cleared 7' 0" to match the meet record...
Besides Ryun and Hardin, the field included Kerry Pearce of Texas-El Paso, the world record holder; Colby's Sebside Mamo, the IC4A champion, and Big Ten champion Larry Wieczorek of Iowa...