Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's snowy Cascade Mountains last week, 14 crack ski jumpers mounted to the top of the runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...
...regular New England AAU competition, Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," won the pole vault championship with a hoist of 14 feet; Rudy Forbert, a barrel-chested Tufts junior, took the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 1/3 inches; and Olympic hammer thrower Bob Bennett won the regular 35-pound weight throw with a loft of 52 feet, 1 7/3 inches...
...winning teams in each league will meet to decide the second round champion. This team will then battle it out with Hollis, which won in the before exams first round. The Athletic Committee plans to award Yard Championship medals to the players of the winning squad...
Henry has already gleaned a few honors, among them the state class "C" championship which he won last year as a freshman...
When Andy Lockett and Bill Lawrence go down the runway in the pole vault, they will have to hoist themselves higher than Pete Harwood, among other people. Harwood, at present a student at the Business School, won the IC4A pole vault championship in 1946 with a 13 foot, 10 inch jump...