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Word: champions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth team upset Yale, last year's Ivy League champion, last weekend by a score 11 to 10, though Yale still holds second place in the League by virtue of having played one more game than the Indians...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Lacrosse Varsity Rated Underdog Against Dartmouth Team Tomorrow | 5/10/1957 | See Source »

...match proved the biggest thrill of the afternoon, pitting Nisselson, who was last year's State Amateur Champion and former Bermuda Amateurs winner, against Wheeling, who defeated B.C.'s Massachusetts Champion Charley Volpone earlier in the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Golf Team Downs Yale, 4-3, for First Time in 26 Years | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

...match today will come when Crimson number one man Tom Wheeling takes to the fairway against Yale's Bob Nisselson. The Yale captain is a former Bermuda Amateur Champion and last year won the individual Eastern Championships at Cornell...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Golf Squad Will Meet Undefeated Eli Team In Match at Dedham | 5/8/1957 | See Source »

...Sunday Express. The Express complained that the infiltration of American TV has become a "persistent, irresistible intrusion ... a tumbling, roaring flood." The BBC televises seven American-made shows each week (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, I Married Joan, Hey, Jeannie, Star Choice and Champion, the Wonder Horse) and also has three programs whose formats and titles are carbon copies of U.S. shows (What's My Line?, This Is Your Life, Twenty Questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Invasion by Film | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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