Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freestyles, in impressive fashion last Saturday. Add to this duo three-time high school All-American freshman Tim Maximoff, fellow Californian Phil Atkinson, and local hero Jack Gauthier (see freshman profiles), and you can understand why opponents will be seeing red when they think of what the championship finals in the 200, 500, and 1650-yd. freestyles will look like at Easterns this year...
...balance of power is overdue for a sport that has been rigidly divided into haves and havenots: the same eight teams have monopolized the Super Bowl, playing one another again and again for a total of 18 appearances in the championship's twelve-year history. But parity on the field was wrought, at least in part, in the rule book. With the regular season expanded by two games to a total of 16, the league shifted to scheduling that pitted top teams against top teams and also-rans against also-rans more often than ever. The new scheme eliminated...
Oregon upset Washington State for the championship last year, with all five of their scorers finishing in the top 25 of a 300-man field. This year, however, Texas El Paso, with junior college transfer James Rotich and steeplechase specialist James Munyala (both Kenyans), is the team to beat...
Surrounded by tailgaters ravaging daiquiris and culinary delights, the Harvard and Yale rugby squads met Saturday morning for the mythical autumn Ivy championship...
...slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey the rest of the way to save his championship...