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Word: championship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although in defeat, Coach Fred Mitchell's revamped lineup showed more spark than in recent games. Resting in third place in the League, the Crimson must win two games from both Dartmouth and Yale in order to capture the championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figures Show Harvard Weak at Bat; Strong Afield | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...order to win the Eastern League championship, the Varsity must win the four remaining encounters of the season. Since these contests are against the leading teams, Yale and Princeton, Crimson chances for a high place in the standings are slight following the set-backs by mediocre Pennsylvania and Princeton nines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE LOSES THREE WEEKEND TILTS | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

...Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion of the world for insulting Nick's mistress, Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery, gun feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week. When it ended his opponent (William Haade, a onetime steelworker) was hospitalized for a fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before he wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

With stars assembling from all over the country the greatest interest will be aroused in the team competition in which Columbia, Yale and Pitt will be satisfied with nothing less than the championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 OF MIKKOLA'S MEN LEAVE FOR NEW YORK | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

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