Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston College's current contenders for the mythical national championship will take a day off Saturday and come over to the Stadium to watch Harvard beat Brown. The B.C. athletes are holding their game ever until the holiday on Tuesday, October 12, when they clash with Temple, third step in their drive toward an undefeated season which they have promised themselves...
...Duke, favored to win another Southern Conference championship, started the season by trouncing Virginia Polytechnic Institute...
...imported Champion Thil, bullnecked, bulging-shouldered athletic oldster of 33, bald on his head but well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that...
...years ago Jock Whitney organized the Greentree polo team around his 10-goal neighbor, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., proceeded to win the U. S. Open Championship twice. Although Sonny learned polo not only from Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. but from his own polo-pioneering father (U. S. Internationalist 1909-11-13), his playing has developed more slowly. This year, however, when Cousin Jock determined that Greentree should be the first team to win three Open Championships in a row, Sonny gave him cause for alarm. Sonny, with his Old Westbury team built around the other current U. S. 10-goaler, Stewart...
...Westbury's No. 2, Texan Cecil Smith, cut in abruptly to score, it looked like the end of Greentree's hopes-and it was. Iglehart and Balding succeeded in scoring another goal apiece, and Old Westbury won the match 11-to-6 for its first Open Championship...