Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary Giants collapsed. The Bear's great passer Sid Luckman, who had not carried the ball all year, decided to run with it. He plunged up the middle, brushed aside two Giants, went 19 yards for the deciding touchdown. A few minutes later, the Bears cinched the championship with a field goal. Score: Bears 24, Giants...
...Shed was the grand old dog of all retrievers and this was perhaps his last big year. A jet-black, brown-eyed Labrador, he weighed 85 pounds and was an old-timer at seven. Against him in the national championship last week at Herrin, Ill. were the 19 best retrievers-Labradors, Goldens and Chesapeake Bays...
...move from the Indoor Athletic Building to the Garden was certainly justified by the size of the student body and the following that this year's five would inherit from '45's championship team and this year's successful season. If the popularity built up by last year's performances, which took Harvard to the semi-finals at Madison Square Garden, was to be maintained without frustrating too many fans, transfer to the Garden was an obvious necessity...
...this had been a year of strong defense, mediocre offense, and of team play. Before 63,000 chilly fans at the Polo Grounds this week, the New York Giants, a squad that has no real standouts, earned a 31-to-0 victory and the league's Eastern division championship. Their victims, the Washington Redskins, had a good line all season, but it didn't stand up very well against the Giants...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC). Ray Robinson v. Tommy Bell: 15 rounds for the world's welterweight championship...