Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...romance of the rusty wire, some 65,000 collectors are now in the field, many of them members of one of the two dozen local, state or regional barbed-wire associations. The Barbed Wire Association of La Crosse, Kans., has crowned a Miss Barbed Wire and sponsors a world championship barbed-wire splicing contest...
Harvard's varsity baseball team has captured the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball championship in each of the last four years, but yesterday at Soldier's Field it was the Quakers of Pennsylvania who established themselves as the team to best in this year's title race...
Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew began its 1975 season by ending it. In once convenient swoop at the San Diego Invitational Crew Classic held last Saturday, the Crimson cleaned all major aspirants to their national championship title...
...doubts, Washington and fourth-place-finishing Wisconsin will have another stab at Harvard and the national championship title later this season. Wisconsin, which was also at a training disadvantage in San Diego, will be an even greater challenge to Harvard at the Eastern Sprints in May at Princeton...
...dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game of the 1934 championship between St. Louis and Detroit, Medwick was spiked by the Tiger third baseman and responded in kind, provoking a legendary riot. At inning's end, Tiger fans peppered left fielder Ducky with so many pies, vegetables and candied apples that he had to be yanked from the game...