Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results of nine seasons can be taken as any indication, Haines is bound to turn out a strong varsity 150-pound crew this spring. The genial Englishman has consistently built championship lightweight crews, and has lost but one race--to Princeton last year--in the past three seasons...
...week after the Wright Cup race the Crimson heads into the championship Eastern Association of Rewing Colleges Regatta, also scheduled for Lake Carnegle. In this race every lightweight crew in the country will be on hand. This means the Crimson will have to beat Columbia, Cornell, Penn, MIT, Yale--as well as Princeton--If it is to regain the Goldwaithe Cup that traditionally signifies 150-pound crew supremacy...
...National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
...break came with 43 seconds to play: a free throw for the Dons. It looped through. The Dons froze the ball, iced the 1949 National Invitation Championship, 48-47. Most valuable player of the tournament (picked by N.I.T. judges): San Francisco's Lofgran...
...National A.A.U. tournament at Oklahoma City, the underdog Oakland (Calif.) Bittners toppled Bob ("Foothills") Kurland and his Olympic teammates of the Bartlesville (Okla.) Phillips Oilers, 55-51, ended the Oilers' unbroken championship reign after six straight years. In the Western finals of the N.C.A.A. at Kansas City, Oklahoma A. & M.'s ball-control specialists outplayed Oregon State, 55-30, got set for the national finals in Seattle late this week...