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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marine ungulates go on to capture the second round championship, the tournament will close. If, however, they are upset in the second round, a two out of three game play-off will be necessitated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEPHANT FIVE TAKES LAURELS | 1/14/1944 | See Source »

...curtailed informal basketball schedule and the lack of any hockey whatsoever, the inter-House basketball league made its start last Tuesday on a program, planned by Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of intramural Athletics, which will end with the winners of each half of the season meeting in a championship playoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Basketball League Gets Under Way As Adams And Eliot Are Victors | 1/7/1944 | See Source »

Snow lay deep on the hills around Oslo. On Christmas Day, as always, Norwegians thronged the ski slopes. Men over 45 and boys under 18, outside the Nazi slave-labor brackets, began practicing for this winter's illegal championship, the fourth since Norway's athletes went on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes on Strike | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...matches were finally held. Only 90 people turned out to watch the first day of a national skating championship. Last fall's football (soccer) championship drew only a handful. Oslo's Bislet Stadium was deserted when track & field championships were held last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes on Strike | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...program called it Washington's Redskins v. Chicago's Bears for the professional (i.e., world's) football championship. But the 33,632 persons at Chicago's Wrigley Field early this week knew the real issue: Was Redskin Sammy Baugh or Bear Sid Luckman the better passer? The game turned into a rout, the Bears won 41-to-21, but the question was still unanswered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Answer | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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