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Word: championship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House championship crew races will be run off this afternoon with Eliot the team to beat. The Elephants turned in their best time in the semi-finals Thursday, an auspicious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon Nine Downs Eliot; Adams Vanquishes Dudley | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...Italians, as to most Europeans, soccer is what baseball is to Americans. No team in Italy was more beloved than Turin's Torinos, whose emblem was a charging bull. Bull-like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Champions Are Dead | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Western Union Company probably prevented Bill Rickenbacker from winning the New England student golf championship Saturday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Rickenbacker Sleeps During NE Golf Individuals | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Three Harvard crews left no question as to their supremacy in the East Saturday when they scored an unprecedented sweep of the 2000 meter championship sprint regatta held at Syracuse by the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges. The victories netted the Crimson a total of 261 losers' rowing shirts...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Varsity Crew Gains Eastern Sprints Title | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...been setting a steady 32 beat and then slowly increased it to 36 to pull even with the Penn beat which was stroking at 39. The Crimson's terrific sprint, coupled with Penn's poor steering, gave Harvard a two-thirds length victory victory and with it the championship...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Varsity Crew Gains Eastern Sprints Title | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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