Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford met with eight teams that participated in the Little League World Series and accepted an autographed baseball from the winning pitcher of the championship team from Taiwan. The evening of the press conference, the President and his wife celebrated its success at a small dinner party in the White House for Nelson and Happy Rockefeller that was attended by senior presidential aides, Cabinet members and their wives...
Muhammad Ali's bid to regain the heavyweight championship got a shot in the arm last week. Several, in fact...
...When Forest Hills admitted professionals for the first time in 1968, the prize money was $100,000. This year it is $271,000. The men's and women's singles winners will each get a $6,000 car and $5,000 championship ring plus the $22,500 first prize. The money reflects the general boom in tennis that leads Open Director Bill Talbert to think it is "easily conceivable" that Forest Hills will be worth half a million dollars in five years. This is the kind of inflation the competitors applaud...
...Tahlequah, Okla., when he was three. The son of a clothing retailer who was once a steer wrestler himself, Ferguson later attended California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo "because it was a good rodeo school." With him in the saddle, Cal Poly won the national intercollegiate championship three out of four years - and for the period 1967-72, Ferguson...
...dilution of professional sports, with a pro franchise in almost every city in the country, Harvard athletes now stand a much better chance than they have in past years of making it in the big time. In football, for instance, only John Dockery, who can flash a Superbowl championship ring from his days with the New York Jets, has been successful in recent years with...