Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illini, however, in their first three games have astonished the basketball world by romping over Coo and Pitt and by turning back a veteran Notre Dame squad which was reputed to be a "sure shot for the national championship...
Except for Holy Cross, B. C. annually turns out about the smoothest freshman team in the Boston area. This year's squad of ten men was hand-picked, mostly from two championship high school aggregations. Four team men played together on Brooklyn's leading high school team. Three others, all brothers, were the mainstays of Maine's Waterville High squad which copped 46 straight wins in three years. Five were elected to New York's all-metropolitan team...
...clock in the Boston Garden took a decided jump yesterday as the Ivy League Rules Committee finally came through with an affirmative vote on the eligibility of Walt McCurdy, six-foot guard who was named most valuable player in the Navy for his stellar role with the armed service championship Iowa Seahawks last year...
With two rounds to go, Jersey Joe's handlers told him he had the fight (and the world's heavyweight championship) in the bag. Under orders to stay away from Louis, Jersey Joe began playing hare & hound. When the fight ended, Joe Louis, instead of staying in his corner, ducked through the ropes. (He explained later: "I fought so lousy that I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out of sight.") His handlers pulled him back to wait for the decision...
...raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs and battered face, shuffled over to Walcott and said apologetically: "I'm sorry...