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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, when they play each other, both Michigan and Northwestern fans will know a little more about which of their teams is championship bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Nine's Big Wheels | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...committee report, the football competition will begin October 25, and continue until about November 16. Although the exact number of teams is not yet known, the committee hopes that two or three leagues of eight teams each can be formed, with first place teams vying for the Yard championship. Hope was also expressed that Yale might send a Freshman squad to compete here on Friday preceding the traditional Eli clash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Freshman Sports Program Planned As 3 Touch Football Leagues Take Shape | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...selling refrigeration equipment) after winning his Davis Cup matches. They expected a little more interest in the game from the man who had once been rated the nation's No. 1 amateur. His opponent last week was young Pancho Gonzales, who had just won the national amateur championship Ted Schroeder might have won at Forest Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Careless Champ | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Next day, Schroeder met wooden-faced Frank Parker in the finals. Parker was leading at the end of the third set, 6-4, 9-7; 5-7 when he gave up, complaining of blisters on both feet. Parker's defaulting gave Schroeder the championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Careless Champ | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...played four other clubs, only one of whom gained more than eleven (11) yards rushing. Now Packer Coach E. L. "Curly" Lambean had gone ahead and in no uncertain terms declared that this team was the greatest thing to hit Wisconsin since Schlitz, every bit as good as his championship aggregations of 1929, '30, and '31 and the players knew it. The Bears were just ordinary Godfearing pro football players. They had Lujack, Luckman, and Layne and they stopped the Packers cold, 45-7. Overconfidence! Next time these two teams meet, the Packers will probably cream the Bears, but that...

Author: By Pete Taub, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

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