Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galento, when Al Capone got out of jail. Mrs. E. M. Noble, of Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...
...Cambridge, 52,000 fans, sitting in an ice-caked horseshoe, had hot & cold chills as they watched Harvard and Yale fight it out in the traditional Big Game of the East. No title was at stake. Undefeated Cornell had already clinched the mythical Ivy League championship. Ducky Pond had admitted that this year's Yale team was the worst he ever coached. Harvard had been beaten by Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton...
Johnny Goodman (June 6, 1938). Goodman was an 8-to-1 favorite to win the British Amateur Golf Championship in June 1938. He never reached the quarterfinals. In the Walker Cup matches played fortnight later, Goodman lost both his matches and the U. S. lost the Walker Cup for the first time since...
Wallace Wade (Oct. 25, 1937). Undefeated but tied when Duke's Wade appeared on TIME'S cover, the Blue Devils three weeks later lost to North Carolina, 14-to-6, losing the Southern championship...
...zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...