Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League champion Harvard dominated the All-Ivy soccer squad released yesterday by placing four men on the first team. Goalie Thomas C. Bagnoli '60, fullback Langley C. Keyes '60, wing Lawrence B. Ekpebu '60, and halfback Marsh H. McCall, Jr. '60 were the Crimson representatives on the coaches' dream lineup...
...Crimson was able to finish on top in the Metropolitan competition, but this year it has already swept the first of two winter tournaments. If the Harvard players do not win the second, they will play the victors in a tie-breaker next March to determine the League champion...
While the Chinese were boldly occupying Indian territory, Krishna Menon was rising in the U.N. to champion the admission of Peking and to lead the fight against debating the Tibet tragedy. The Hindustan Times fumed about Menon's "immoral and degrading performances." Indian students paraded in New Delhi, shouting "Menon resign! Menon resign!" General Thimayya quarreled with Menon and threatened to leave the army. Nehru talked him out of it. With his hesitant response to China's calculated attack on the Indian patrol in Ladakh, Nehru lost his once unshakable hold on the nation's intellectuals, business...
Early in the year, the pro champion Baltimore Colts lolled on the laurels of success. With a rock-hard defense turned butter-soft, their record at mid-season was an embarrassing 4-3, and only the slingshot passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas saved the Colts from a worse showing. Not until recent weeks did the Colts turn frisky again, climb to a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the faltering San Francisco Forty-Niners...
...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...