Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designated two people to run things for him: Ohio Representative Clarence J. Brown, bull-throated, bull-necked newspaper publisher who once directed a Knox-for-President movement, was tactical director of the 1946 G.O.P. election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown (no kin), vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, founder of Dayton's Junior League, member of the D.A.R. and Colonial Dames of America, and vice president of the Ohio Yellow...
...also couldn't help but know, as does everyone at Ann Arbor, that this Saturday is the crucial one for Bob Chappuis and his fellow specialists on Michigan's team. They face Illinois, unbeaten until last week, and anxious to unseat a championship-bound Michigan as they...
Meanwhile Clint Frank's Elis were showing considerable power. The Bulldogs rolled over Princeton 26 to 0 on November 13 and came into the "Harvard game" on November 20 unbeaten that year, undefeated by the Crimson in three years, and favorites to take the Ivy League Championship. But Harlow's team rallied in the rain and snow to win, 13 to 6, winding up with a relatively good record for Crimson elevens--five wins, two defeats...
With this victory, the first major triumph for the College tars since they won the eastern championship in 1944, the yatchsmen attacked their fall schedule with Gus Scamans, fugitive from the soccer squad, taking third in a Marble head big-boat competition. Next, Own Torrey and Hilary Smart cleaned up the Intercollegiate Star Class trials at New London, there by installing themselves as favorites for the finals there today...
Meanwhile, things have been picking up in the local dinghy department. Last Sunday, while the rest of the College slept off its post-football hangovers, Frank Scully, Dick Braisted, and Stew Clifford led the field home in the freshman qualifying rounds for the dinghy championship finals this week. Scully, assisted by another. Freshman, Jack Gardner, breezed home first in five races and finished second in the sixth...