Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giants-Redskins playoff drew 42,800 and pushed 1943 pro football attendance to well above 1,100,000, with the championship game still to be played. Only 1941 (with 13 more games) had a higher total. Average attendance this year was 27,000-a quarter more than...
...somehow upset them 14-10. A week later, on power plays and unexpectedly tight pass defense, the Giants smothered the Redskins 31-7. Gamblers made the Giants 8-5 favorites in the playoff for the right to meet Chicago's Bears this Sunday for the National Football League Championship. But the odds ignored a bass-voiced 29-year-old Texan named Samuel Adrian Baugh...
Yale became the Big Two football champion, Harvard won the championship of Camp Edwards, but the only consolation for Princeton men, whose team won only one game all year, was that they might have gone to Columbia...
...score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives who wanted to talk to him about a holdup. Now 33, he says he sells neckties...