Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
...back and scored one. One minute before the end of the game, the Redskins were leading 28-to-21, and Sam Baugh was taken out of the game for good. Before the Bears could take advantage of his absence, the final gun exploded. The Redskins had won their first championship of the National Football League. It was probably the most exciting one-man show in the history of professional football...
Last fortnight the Redskins, their band and 8,000 followers moved on New York City to play the New York Giants for the championship of the National Football League's Eastern Division. The Redskins needed to win to become Eastern champions; the Giants needed only a tie. Washingtonians bearing banners paraded up Fifth Avenue, whooped and hollered at the Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back...
...Hague before a large gallery of chess experts, the game ended after 43 moves when Dr. Euwe resigned, relaxed, reached his hand across the board to congratulate his opponent. After two months of play. Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, Russian-born Parisian, had regained the world's chess championship he won in 1927 from Cuban Jose Capablanca, lost in 1935 to Dr. Euwe (TIME...
Louis. The possessor of that fist, Germany's beetle-browed Max Schmeling, presumably was warming up for an opportunity to win the title next summer from Champion Louis. After he had knocked out Louis, Schmeling thought he was to meet Jim Braddock for the championship, but Braddock believed he could make more money fighting Louis. Schmeling's opponent this week, a burly blond named Harry Thomas, was a comparative unknown, a college graduate who had been a professional baseball player and railroad engineer, had knocked out 44 of his 56 opponents in five years of professional boxing...