Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went out to Renz's last week, parked their cars, climbed for places on the crook of low hills?a sort of natural balcony?around one field. At noon 13 wagons drove past the crowd. Beside the driver in each wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons...
...game is neither the oldest football rivalry in the country nor is the gridiron the most ancient meeting place of the two famous rivals. The contest has come however, to have an almost legendary distinction which probably harks back to the days when it represented something very like the championship of the United States. Whatever the explanation, there is still no doubt that it is impossible for men of either institution to imagine anything quite like this game...
...vicissitudes of a varied season make it impossible for either team to carry away from the stadium this afternoon the crown of a championship. But the undoubted strength of the two teams, the expected colorful performance of several of their individual members, and the intense yet gracious emotion of their supporters promises an afternoon fully in accord with the fine old sporting tradition...
Morris II won the Business School touch football championship by defeating Chase II 12 to 0 yesterday. The men in the winning lineup were Captain R. C. Jackson 1G.B., C. R. Barrow 1G.B., A. F. Hook 1G.B., C. A. Valentine 1G.B., D. S. Wentworth 1G.B., M. K. Hall 1G.B., and W. G. Kelly 1G.B...
Iowa has always been the rough spot in Minnesota's schedule. In their new stadium they spoiled once more the Gopher's chance for a Conference Championship. Iowa 9, Minnesota...