Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clay's judges will be wholly sublunary. The Justice Department, for one, began legal proceedings that could result in a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. A less predictable magistrate was the World Boxing Association, which announced within hours that Clay was being stripped of the championship and that it was scheduling a world tournament to decide who should fight for his title...
...Barry had been able to see anything but Wilt looming between him and the backboard. Barry's hopeless shot sailed far off target, and the 76ers picked up another two points on a foul. Final score: Philadelphia 125, San Francisco 122, thus giving the 76ers their first championship and ending Wilt's eight-year frustration over the fact that he had never been on a title-winning team...
...Harvard sailing team moved into the finals of the New England Intercollegiate Dinghy Championship at the Tufts Yacht Club last weekend by out-tacking the Coast Guard Academy...
...Crimson met frustration again in the fifteen-point match for the Big Three championship, losing 8-7. Harvard picked up singles wins from Bruce Wiegand (seven), Hodges (nine),and Kent Parrot (ten), but couldn't pick up the deciding eighth point in either the fourth or fifth doubles...
Until yesterday, the golf team, despite its 7-2 record (3-0 among the Ivies) and impressive 4-3 win over Penn, had never considered itself a championship team. In its first match, Harvard was pounded by a better-practiced Navy team; this was followed by an upset loss to Holy Cross. The team is also inexperienced--LoPucki, Wynne, and Oldfield are sophomores, and two juniors never played varsity golf before...