Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin is holder of the number two position in the National Boxing Association ratings in the middleweight class, and Potkonjak has twice held the Golden Gloves championship in middleweight bouts...
...four-ounce-glove fight-and Crosby-lasted 77 rounds, five hours and five minutes.* The winner was a St. Louis printer named Harry Sharpe, whose rewards were 1) the Missouri lightweight championship, 2) a side bet of $500, 3) eleven months in jail for violating an anti-prizefight law. (Crosby was let off.) Both men had trained so well they were still slugging in the 76th round, when they knocked each other down simultaneously. Crosby banged his head and got up dazed. Sharpe put him down for the count a few minutes later...
...Redskins. For drawing power, the Washington Redskins are again the No. 1 team this year. They have 1942's national championship and Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Their laundryman owner, Gorgeous George Marshall, is the slickest promoter in the game. Last week Baugh & Co. won their fourth straight...
...Pacific gets by Southern California this week, it should end the season undefeated and the Coast's contender for the national championship title, for which Army, Navy and Notre Dame (also a Navy school) are contending spectacularly. It would also give Alonzo Stagg his first crack at coaching a Rose Bowl team...
After brilliant records at Tulane, Loyola at New Orleans and Stanford (where in 1940 he won eight straight and the Rose Bowl championship), this season Shaughnessy is trying to rescue Pittsburgh from doldrums brought on by a violent attack of simon-pure amateurism. His Panthers have yet to make a touchdown, but he has found his dream team in football's record book, sets it out in his Football in War & Peace for fans to mull over...