Word: championship
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...squad of female jocks from Springfield College dominated every event and easily captured the team championship. Mt. Holyoke, which hosted the meet, took second place honors in the eleven-team field...
...bobsled victory was in 1948; the one hockey triumph was in 1960. Only in figure skating has the U.S. regularly cut the ice. Since 1948, U.S. skaters have brought home no fewer than six gold, four silver, five bronze medals. This year's team, chosen at the national championship in Philadelphia last week, includes at least three medal contenders, plus the nation's single odds-on favorite at Grenoble...
Last year, as a sophomore, Murphy won the Eastern Seaboard three-meter diving championship. During the regular season he lost only three of ten meets. So far this year he is undefeated...
...Houston, a school that only began playing major-college sports in 1946, it was the culmination of a building program that has already produced championship-caliber teams in golf, football and baseball. But basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching...
...official announcement of the United States Winter Olympic and World Championship Tournament teams was made Sunday at the conclusion of the United States figure skating championships in Philadelphia...