Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rafters of Boston Garden, high above the hardwood parquet floor, hang two huge green-and-white banners bearing the retired jersey numbers of Boston Celtics who are basketball immortals: Bob Cousy's No. 14, Tommy Heinsohn's No. 15, Bill Russell's No. 6. Flanking the banners are 13 championship pennants signifying N.B.A. titles in nearly half of the league's 32 seasons. It is the gallery of a dynasty, the pantheon of Celtic pride. But this year only the memories are alive. The Celtics are floundering through their worst season since 1949-50 (22 wins, 46 defeats). Injuries...
...tournament that had been postponed, shortened to two days and cut back to six teams (Cornell and Barnard could not make the trip) followed the seedings carefully, with the top two seeds gaining today's 2 p.m. championship showdown...
...Championship final...
Instead, the story of this year's championship meet is not the meet at all, but the sundry travails the squads encountered en route to it. In other words, the motion...
...fact that the aforementioned schools had less than no chance of winning the championship also probably contributed to their reluctance to ski to Cambridge. Princeton and Yale, the meet's co-favorites, faced no such problem. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton mentor Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick us up." It wasn't so much the walk through the snowdrifts that bothered the Tigers but the fact they had to carry their luggage. They...