Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score contrasts miserably with the 5-0 total run up by last year's championship squad against the same team, and Coach Jack Carr was far from satisfied with his team's showing. In an attempt to bolster up its ailing offense, he made a number of personnel changes in the course of the game so that there was no static lineup, especially in the forward line...
After the first week of the Garden show the leading contender for the national cowboy championship was shy, shambling 27-year-old Paul Carney of Galeton, Colo. With 6,178 points (one point for each dollar won during the season-except in bronc-riding events, which merit 1¼), Cowboy Carney was 1,598 points ahead of his nearest rival. Competing in three events (bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, steer riding), he appeared to have the title in the palms of his tremendous hands...
...South Bend, Ind., mighty Notre Dame, No. 11contender for the mythical U. S. football championship this year, had a hard time shaking off a scrappy Georgia Tech team led by a tantalizing little 140-pounder named Johnny Bosch, finally subdued them...
Versatile is the word which best describes blondthatched Dave Freeman, Pomona College sophomore, and 19-year-old champion athlete. Freeman divides his time between badminton, tennis, pingpong (table tennis) and golf. He holds the 1939 national men's badminton title and the 1938 national junior tennis championship. In ping pong he is California junior champion. Golf is strictly a division, yet he shoots near par. He won the first of his many titles in boys ping pong at the age of 13, won only a few small trophies until he was 17, since then has won scores of handsome gold...
Kirkland's experienced gridders overpowered Leverett 12-0, flashing a display of the smart, powerful football that won them the championship last year...