Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers: the annual post-season play-off for the national professional football championship; crushing the New York Giants, defending champions, 27-to-0; before a capacity crowd of 32,000, some of whom paid $30 a pair for their seats; at State Fair Grounds, Milwaukee. Held in nearby Milwaukee because Green Bay's Stadium could seat only 23,000, the game's $83,000 gate assured each victorious Packer $704, each Giant...
...years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year...
...Beau Russell to placekick. The ball sailed between the uprights-so most of the spectators thought. But Referee Bill Halloran thought otherwise, ruled the kick wide. To the tune of the worst booing ever heard in the historic old Polo Grounds, the Giants marched off with the Eastern championship and the right to play the Green Bay Packers (Western champions) for the national title at Milwaukee this week...
...were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other football tops...