Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record 14,751 jampacked University of Minnesota's fieldhouse, was a measure of the epidemic spread of schoolboy basketball's popularity in virtually every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back to get to his mail route...
...Brusman scored first for the Funsters in the three minute overtime, but Steve Busck came back for the Navy with a hard driving lay-up. Then Ed Silberling, who sparked the victory with ten points, proceeded to convert two out of three foul shots, tipping the game and the championship to Dunster...
Last week this sports renaissance had gone far. Because Honduras had beaten Guatemala in the Central American futbol championship series being played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...
wife prepared to eat a fancy dish. En route to their table in Washington, as part of some fund-raising whoop-de-do in Houston, was a Texas capon that had recently won a stock-show championship. Value...
Despite a late Leverett rally, Dunster House's high-powered basketball team captured their play-off contest with the Bunnies 31 to 28 Wednesday afternoon and earned the right to meet NROTC Company One for the intramural championship today. Len Ragozin, with 14 points, paced the Funsters in setting up an early lead that was often threatened, but never overcome by the Leverettmen...