Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bread and butter specialty--free skating. For five straight minutes, Dick exploded with his assortment of jumps and turns, and that was that. After beating Gerschweiler, it was easy for the Englewood, New Jersey, athlete to pocket the Olympic title at St. Moritz and then the world's championship at Davoz...
Button will defend three titles in the next few months--the North American at Philadelphia in February, the world title in Paris (with University Hall permission) at the start of the spring term, and the National championship at Colorado Springs during Easter vacation...
Last year, Cornell held the Ivy League championship. The Crimson took third place...
Cornell captured the 1948 Ivy League football championship, winning all of the four conference games. The Big Red played Pennsylvania, the last of its league foes, in the traditional Thanksgiving Day contest at Franklin Field decisively beating the Quakers 23 to 14. Harvard, Columbia, and Dartmouth also lost to the Ithacans earlier in the season. CORNELL 4 0 DARTMOUTH 4 2 PENN 3 1 HARVARD 3 3 PRINCETON 3 3 BROWN 1 2 YALE 1 4 COLUMBIA...
Kirkland was tied with Eliot for the football championship, although a post-season playoff gave the football cup to the Deacons. This victory, combined with touch football supremacy, gave them 282 1/2 points, Eliot following 30 points behind in second place. Fall competition took place in three sports: tackle football, touch football, and cross country...