Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until a week ago, when the Crimson first-year men administered a 13 1-2 to 2 defeat to the Yale Freshmen, the Blue had been undefeated, whereas the 1931 aggregation had already captured the championship of the Class B league of the Boston Indoor Polo Association. Both of the Freshman outfits have taken teams from the University squads of their respective colleges into camp, the Crimson first-year men having pinned the University horsemen to defeat at one time this season...
...team on the einders in 1920, Mr. Bingham was called back to his alma mater to coach the track team and he lifted the University so far out of the mire that during the 1921 season only half a point separated the Crimson team from California and the intercollegiate championship...
Alluding to Alexander Alekhine, who wrested from Capablanca the chess championship of the world, last December, he said: "Naturally I expect to regain the championship...
...kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious featherweight combats in memory with the jabbing agony of a fractured bone fighting his savage adversary...
...March the season ends. The first three teams in each league struggle against each other to select a champion. These winners play for the World's championship. Addicts pick the Canadians to face either the Rangers, Boston or Detroit for supremacy in this vivid, dangerous diversion...