Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the times were announced, Unser had set a new Indy record by averaging 152.8 m.p.h. His $177,523 winner's purse was the biggest in 500 history, and by scoring his fourth straight victory on the "big car" circuit he sewed up the 1968 U.S. Auto Club championship...
...Hector ("Toe") Blake, 55, said when he barred the doors of the last-place Montreal Canadiens' dressing room Christmas night. But whatever Toe said, his words worked. The Canadiens won 30 of their remaining 41 games and skated away with the National Hockey League's East Division championship. They then wiped out the Boston Bruins (4 games to 0), the Chicago Black Hawks (4-1), and finally the West Division's St. Louis Blues (4-0) to win their eighth Stanley Cup in 13 years...
...tough coach. This year, despite some bad breaks, he engineered an undefeated season. At the beginning of the year Monk Terry, the outstanding lightweight stroke, decided to move up to heavies. His loss was a real blow, but Andersen juggled his men and came up with a championship boat. He adopted the new Stampfli boat this year and his oarsmen had to get used to that...
Senior captain Bo Keefe, who will be playing his last match for Harvard, has led the team to its first Eastern Golf Championship, its seventh straight Greater Boston Crown, and its best match-play record in ten years...
While Harvard's varsity tennis team was celebrating a league championship at Lockober's last night, a mysterious lineup of untested rookies carried the Crimson banner against Brandeis in the final dual of the season...