Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offense that the Giants needed little attack of their own, rolled to a decisive 10-0 victory which gave them the Eastern Conference Championship. A team with little individual brilliance and rated nowhere by pre-season dopesters, the Giants have won all the big ones, will meet the Western Champion Baltimore Colts next week for the National Football League title...
...greying Negro caught a crushing right hand to the head, staggered backward, fell heavily to the canvas. At the count of nine, Archie Moore, aging light-heavyweight champion of the world, struggled to his feet. Clumsy Yvon Durelle, 29, the pride of French Canada, promptly sent him down again. Before the first round was over, in Montreal's Forum last week, Archie was decked once more for a nine count. The partisan crowd howled at the prospect of watching the long-delayed demise of boxing's most amazing relic. Said Archie later: "Every time I saw the referee...
Boxing's most engaging clown, Archie has a gift of gab that somehow tends to make the public think of him as a jokester, underrate him as a champion. But for six years he has beaten all comers at 175 lbs. Three years ago in an unsuccessful bid for the heavyweight title, he knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie...
...driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...
Joel Landau, the 1958 intercollegiate high and low hurdle champion, should have little trouble taking first in his specialty, to be run over the 40-yard indoor course. Crimson broad jumpers and pole vaulters are expected to triumph, and Dyke Benjamin in the distances, Art Cahn in the 1000-yard run, and John deKiewiet in the high jump are also definite favorites, McCurdy said...