Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for the freshman year at Harvard. My entry proctor chose the people in Straus Hall so that we'd win the intramural championship. He had one space left over. I filled...
...finished lower than fifth, has averaged an extraordinary 68.8 strokes per round and has amassed $200,210 in prize money. "I know the wheel's going to fall off one day," he keeps saying. But still he keeps rolling. After two rounds in last week's P.G.A. Championship, Weiskopf was tied for third only two strokes behind the leaders. With no end in sight, there is some conjecture that Weiskopf has at age 30 discovered some new secret about the game. Yoga, perhaps? Pep pills? Magic? Prayer...
...years old, he left Mississippi for Chicago with some 100 songs that he had written, and the dream of becoming a professional fighter. Dixon had a few pro-fights in Chicago. He was Joe Louis's sparring partner for a time, and one year, he won the Golden Gloves Championship. After a while, he started "drinking, and hanging out," and he soon forgot all about his boxing career...
...shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter race...
...immortalize the ergometers 11 years ago, Harvard crews have become a force to be reckoned with in international competition. This year's J.V. crew has proved to be no exception. The eight, stroked by junior John "Woody" Canaday, was manned by the same personnel that won the Eastern Sprint Championship in May. At the Nottingham Regatta, held in late June, and at the Henley Finals, the powerful J.V. eight proved their worth...