Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled his football team up from Boston by the roots, transplanted it to Washington...
...Versatile Sam Baugh is the main reason why the Redskins are now only half a game behind the powerful Giants, why in mid-December they may possibly meet the champions of the Western Division-likely to be the Chicago Bears or the Green Bay Packers-for the National League championship...
Clara Mortensen was defending the "championship" which she claims to hold among the 60 women professionals now adays engaged in trying to revive what was once a standard U. S. sport. In the days of the great Cora Livingstone (now the wife of Boston's Promoter Paul Bowser), "lady wrestlers" wore black tights and spangled leotards, appeared regularly in urban variety houses and the Police Gazette. Squarejawed, blonde Wrestler Mortensen does neither. Now 21, she has been a professional wrestler off & on since she was seven, when her father, who used to wrestle in his native Denmark, matched...
...greatest machines 7-to-7. Having thus produced two teams which some experts rated as highly as any in the U. S., methodical Coach Wade proceeded to go into a relative slump until 1930, when his last and probably best Alabama team crushed all opposition, won the Southern Conference championship, went to the Rose Bowl and sensationally overwhelmed Washington State...
...retired to stud $38,000 short of Sun Beau's record winnings of $376,744, Sonny Whitney began to think of selling. Last year 24 of his yearlings were sold at Saratoga. Few weeks ago Sonny Whitney's Old Westbury polo team won the U. S. Open Championship from Jock Whitney's Greentree team (TIME, Oct. 4), and Sonny Whitney's two entries finished fifth and seventh in the Futurity. After that it was certain that the light-blue jacket and brown cap would be seen on the turf no more...