Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still undefeated, but with only a single victory apiece, are Princeton and Columbia, both of whom won four-point contests from Dartmouth's defending champions last weekend. The Big Green is not regarded as a championship contender this season, and the graduation of And Brindley and Mo Monahan in February will make even harder work for Coach Elmer Lampe next month...
...thousand miles away, beneath Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains in glossy Sun Valley, Utah's team skied to victory last week in the West's intercollegiate championship meet against 125 entrants from 25 colleges. What looked to be the biggest & best U.S. ski season on record had begun...
...attempted bribery of two of the Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
...like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly. So did the Golden. Scoronine led the field until the last day, then refused to plunge into the 45° water. (Shed had won his first U.S. championship on a day that was 16° below. ) Now it was Shed's turn...
...across, Shed's black head turned at a whistle from Bakewell to get directions. He entered the cattails just six feet from where the mallard was hidden, sniffed for a second, found his bird. A few minutes later, Shed did it again, and won his third U.S. championship. His owner, who once turned down $10,000 for him, will collect almost that much next year from Shed's stud fees. Said an admiring voice in the gallery: ''Handling that dog is like driving...