Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple months ago, the Harvard swimming team seemed destined for an undefeated season and the Eastern Seaboard Championship crown...
Winthrop House twice rallied from deficits to take the coed touch football championship from Pierson College, 13-12. Bernie Bach fired a 50-yard touchdown bomb to Lissa Muscatine, giving Winthrop a 7-6 lead...
...Player Maxine Brady, 33, a writer and lecturer who is married to Chess Writer and Arbiter Frank Brady. It draws on the research of mathematicians, economists and psychologists. The game's maker, Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., also will sponsor next week in Manhattan an annual World Monopoly Championship-an event from which will emerge the game's grand master. The contest will pit British, Canadian, European and U.S. regional champions, probably six in all, against one another for a gold and silver trophy...
Meanwhile, the Miami Dolphins are locked in an unlikely fight in the A.F.C. East with the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots. Heading into a showdown game with the Bills last Sunday, the Dolphins finally seemed to be regaining their championship form. Quarterback Bob Griese was passing with authority after a shaky start, Wide Receiver Paul Warfield was back in business after missing five games with a leg injury, and Miami's brilliant defense was once again throttling opposition attacks. But Miami by no means has free passage to New Orleans...
...Cardinals and Bills-and even lowly Houston-would undoubtedly agree. So too would a lot of fans weary of seeing Miami coast to a championship every January...