Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...
After trailing in score three times, Dunster squeezed out a five foot lead in the 200 yard relay to win the intramural swimming championship from Adams yesterday, 27 to 21. Arthur Sicular, who won the 50 yard free style and took second in the 100, meant the difference for the Funsters...
...team in the U.S. is Champaign (Ill.) High, whose boys start learning their peculiar brand of fire wagon play in the city schools' fifth grade. When Champaign brought home the state championship, the team was mounted on fire trucks, driven down streets crowded with fans...
...Stillwater, Okla. last week, some 60 collegians grunted (although not half so loud as the vaudevillian pros) and sweated on wrestling mats. At stake: Oklahoma A. & M.'s strangle hold on the intercollegiate wrestling championship. The Aggies had won it 13 times in 15 years...
...first since 1942. Some of the boys, back from the wars, had to be tapped for illegal holds. Even though 290-lb. George Bolas, Big Ten heavyweight champion from Ohio State, flattened the Aggies' No. 1 muscle man, Lloyd Arms, the Aggies managed to pin down championship No. 14. Team scores: Aggies, 25; Iowa Teachers...