Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champion Is Mourned. White was intense and fanatical, and he often made enemies, but he came as close as any man since Booker T. Washington to being a leader of his chosen people. He willingly bucked public opinion, Negro and white, when he thought he was right. After his first wife divorced him, in 1949, White married Poppy Cannon, a white woman who was born in South Africa. He was widely criticized, and the NAACP decided to keep him as secretary only after a 3½hour debate, by a vote...
Dave Hawkins, defending National A.A.U. champion in the 100-yard butterfly, will attempt to retain his crown over the new longer 220-yard distance--and against the man who beat him last weekend--at New Haven tomorrow...
...traditional spring tour the squad will play five of the top teams in the country, one on each of five successive days next week. On Monday the Crimson will meet Navy, last year's national intercollegiate lacrosse champion, and highly favored by coaches to retain the title. Following Navy, the team will play the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, and Princeton, in that order. Each school is ranked within the top eight in the nation, and has won the national title at least once in the last six years...
...stick handler and playmaker Peto Fry of Dunster will captain the favored Wintergreens, whose squad includes five players from inter-House champion Eliot...
Grays will meet the National League champion at 3;30 p.m. tomorrow at Hemenway to determine the yard champion...