Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billed as the rematch of the decade: the University of Houston, No. 1 -ranked college basketball team, against No. 2 U.C.L.A. in the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. championship at Los Angeles. Last year in the same N.C.A.A. round, U.C.L.A. whipped Houston by a score of 73-58 and went on to win the championship. Then, last January, Houston turned the tables with a startling 71-69 midseason upset that knocked the Bruins from the No. 1 ranking and smashed their 47-game winning streak. Now it was Houston with its own 32-game winning streak on the line, and U.C.L.A...
Just two football seasons ago 40,000 fans witnessed one of the greatest games in the history of Harvard sports. The Big Green from Hanover, defending champs, come to town for a game that everyone felt would decide the Ivy Championship...
...length Pringle began to tire. The rested Yurow started to close the gap. With ten yards to go only inches separated the two, and the inches were rapidly disappearing. But Pringle proved to be the champion, touching out Yurow by one-tenth of a second and sending the Eastern Championship to Harvard for the first time in 24 years...
...could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...
...Winfield has been elected to lead next year's fencing team to coach Edo Marion's promised national championship...