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Word: championship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hopefully, Sheehan won't encounter such problems in the Greater Boston Championships or the upcoming Big Three Championship against Yale and Princeton. Stiles looks confidently to team success in both meets, but eyes the Heptagonal meet as a test for this year's Heps...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Sheehan and Stiles Break Barriers In Two-Mile and Pole Vault Events | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...Denver fans turned out to cheer their team. The Broncos have sold out every home game played in the '70s, and every year the list of masochists ordering season tickets grew by the thousands. This year, the faithful finally struck the mother lode, division title, American Conference championship, a berth in the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...regularity, including prospects found in fields foreign to the gridiron. Track stars, basketball players ?not to mention the occasional Heisman Trophy winner?have contributed to the impressive return on Dallas' investments: the play-offs eleven times in the past twelve years, five National Conference titles, one Super Bowl championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Mets of the Mountains. Theirs is a Cinderella story to catch the fancy of underdog rooters everywhere and stamp a presence on the national mind as copper bright and shiny as a new penny from the Denver Mint. It is exquisite, this first flirtation with a world championship of sport. No matter how often it may recur, it will never again be so sweet. It excuses the excesses and lifts the hearts of all who look on and recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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