Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...charge, he jumps bail and flees to Europe. A hounded exile, he drifts from country to country, reaching a kind of symbolic degradation when he shuffles through the role of Uncle Tom in a Budapest cafe and is booed. Still, he rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than honest emotional power, she commits...
...Brian Dowling-led Elis received five first place votes and 61 of a possible 64 votes. Trailing with the other three championship picks and 54 points was Princeton. Dartmouth, at 46 1/2, and Cornell at 42 1/2, rounded out the first division...
John Heyburn is a tall, sturdy runner who was a pleasant surprise for last year's championship team, finishing third for Harvard in the crucial Heptagonal meet. John had a disappointing season on the track last year but seems to thrive on the longer distances of cross-country. He has already made significant improvement on his best home course time of last fall...
Later in the season, however, everyone knows that the squad of twelve will be cut to seven starters for the championship meets. The scramble of the last seven for two places can underline the differences among team members. But as soon as the squad is selected, the captain and top runners take the lead in smoothing over bitter rivalries; if the team is going to complete the season undefeated and win a few championships besides, diversity and internal competitiveness have to meld into a co-ordinated effort...