Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans, nominally retired, who spend most of the year telling themselves that they are through with the hot smell of lubricating oil, the screech of skidding tires, the grab of brakes fighting for control. This year is no exception: among the entrants is René Dreyfus, 49, onetime champion of France, a driver who dropped out of regular competition 15 years ago and settled down to a more prosaic profession: running Le Chanteclair, a raidtown Manhattan restaurant...
Both teams have lost only two matches this year, to Princeton, the National Intercollegiate Squash League champion, and to Navy, but the varsity has recently lost the services of two top players, Captain and number two man Bill Wister and number five Cal Place...
Captain Ken Culbert (177), who advanced to the semi-finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships at Penn State last night, will face Pittsburgh's national champion Solomon at 2 p.m. today...
Last year's champion in the 125-lb, class, Jim Bresnahan of Dudley lost to Bob Weiler as the Dunster boxer won on a referee's decision. Norm Wyner of Winthrop House, last year's winner in the 145-lb. division, defeated fast-starting Stacy Holmes of the Funsters by a TKO in the third round...
...McCurdy's powerful track teams are well known, but few people realize the excellence and length of his career as a middle distance man. In his final year at Tamalpais High School in California, McCurdy won his first race against topflight competition and became the state's 880 champion. The following year, as a Stanford freshman, he entered the front rank of the nation's runners, duelling his teammate Ben Eastman, an Olympic star, in what McCurdy calls the most gruelling races of his career...