Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vanderbilt Group" is not a real dormitory team but is a squad which lives outside and was admitted into the dormitory league. They clinched the championship early in the season and soundly trounced most of their opponents...
With the House championship securely in their possession regardless of the outcome of their game, the Kirkland eleven bowed to Winthrop 7-0 yesterday. In the other encounter played, Eliot's team took a 14-0 decision from Dunster. The victories of the Puritans and Elephants put them in a tie for second place in the standing...
Since Hartford's battered Bat Battalino abdicated his title in 1932, there has been no undisputed world's featherweight (126 Ib.) champion. Last week Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has had a hand in settling the championship of practically every other division of boxing, inaugurated his tenure of the boxing rights at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden by matching the two ranking featherweight contenders in an effort to produce one acknowledged champion...
...California since he knocked out the New York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong had to do to become featherweight champion was to beat Petey Sarron...
...With a championship thus placed in his grasp, Boxer Armstrong, whose deadly knockout record has already convinced most sportswriters that he is a miniature Joe Louis, last week proceeded to perform that chore. Armstrong and Sarron larruped each other fiercely, if without notable boxing skill, for five rounds. Then Sarron's legs began to buckle. In the sixth, as Sarron folded his arms helplessly over his hairy chest, Armstrong pummeled him harder than ever. Near the end of the round, Armstrong suddenly let loose a long, looping right to the jaw, and Sarron, for the first time...