Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Houses could come through only once in yesterday's games with the Yale colleges, but that once was enough for Kirkland House, the Crimson inter-mural champion, to whip the Yale champions, Berkeley, by a 21 to 12 score and bring the inter-University championship to Harvard for the coming year...
...came back in the fall of 1938 his luck had changed. He won a position on the Varsity, alternating at guard and tackle during the season, which proved to be Bob Kipe's last with the Maize and Blue. That winter he won the Big Nine Conference heavyweight wrestling championship for the first time and was elected captain for the following year. As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he also took on the task of running a day camp for boys, a job he continued after graduation by running a camp in Wyoming during the summer...
With the same passing attack that won them the American League crown during the regular season, Thayer Middle's smooth-working touch football team captured the Yard championship by rolling over the National League's leading Matthews North sextet, 18 to 0, at Soldiers Field...
Although Northeastern High had a strong team, twice reaching the championship city playoff, Madar was not singled out by the experts for any special honors. That was to come later at Michigan, which he entered in 1939. As a freshman, he played halfback. In fact it wasn't until 1942 that he switched to end, playing 50 minutes or more of every game with the famous "Seven Oak Posts", who helped wallop Don Forte's Harvard team 35-7 at Ann Arbor. "I can remember Cleo O'Donnell and Wally Flynn in that game," Madar recalls. And they undoubtedly remember...
...with a 4-1 record) defeats Eliot (5-0) then the three leaders will have identical records as they go into their last games on Friday, when Kirkland plays second place Winthrop and Eliot faces seventh place Dudley. If Eliot wins the Mastodons will walk into their second successive championship...