Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
Disaster struck the following day. In bold headlines, the paper lamented, "Tom Burke Disabled. The Half-Mile Champion Lame in England. Setback to the Chances of Harvard and Yale." The article went on to explain the nature of Burke's ailment, an old stone bruise, and said," Burke is almost broken-hearted over the misfortune. Fortunately, Adams, the American second-string half-miler appears to be in superb condition...
...British forces were "loaded." They included Oxford's captain, Bevis T. D. Rudd, who had won the 400 meters in the Olympics at Antwerp in 1920. Their half-miler, Mountain, was the British 880 champion, while H. B. Stallard had finished only one yard behind the Olympic champion in the mile competition of the British Championships...
...singles players, however, preferred to play their matches at a later date. Therefore, defending champion Junta will play Freiburg, seeded fourth, here on May 31, and second seeded Carl Hirschman of Williams will oppose Amherst's fourth seeded Tom Richardson in the Amherst-Williams match this Tuesday. The two winners will play the final round at a date which will be determined after the Junta-Freiburg match is completed...
Cornell's great varsity eight retained its title as Eastern rowing champion by edging Yale in the finals on Lake Carnegie. The Crimson boat was eliminated by Navy in one of the morning heats as the Middies avenged an earlier defeat at the hands of the varsity...