Word: championship
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...