Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole game, though, is the legendary man in purple, Viking quarterback Fran Tarkenton. Tarkenton--who holds NFL records for total passing yardage(41,798), touchdowns(308) and completions(3186)--has 16 years of experience and should finally guide Minnesota to a national championship...
Restic led Harvard to a 7-2 overall record and its first Ivy League championship ever this year...
...subtlest actor to crawl out from under Marlon's overcoat. But the picture goes most wrong in the conceit it employs to lift Rocky out of the clubs and into the big arena for his title challenge. An Ali-like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids to give this stale ham-and-egger a chance in an engagement on which millions...
...John's almost snatched a win from Indiana in the finals of the Holiday Festival, a game which nonetheless paled before the spectacle of Rutgers and the Redmen playing for the Metropolitan championship before 20,000 raving fans who made 33rd Street sound like a calvary charge over a tin bridge...
...reason for this is a simple matter of numbers, specifically seven and one. Seven is for the returning lettermen who were on last year's national championship squad, and one is for freshman Mike Desaulniers, who will be playing in that position for this year's team...