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Word: championships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Georgia and Georgia Tech plunged into a mighty mud pie, fishing for the Southern Conference championship. The only undefeated major eleven in the land, Georgia (who had despatched Yale) was an easy winner in the prophecies. But forward passes, one thrown, one intercepted, punctured prophecies. Tech sloshed across the muddy goal line twice, score 12-0, took the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles?these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated. By 1921, when he had not lost a game for seven years, Capablanca met German Dr. Lasker* for the championship and won four games without losing any. Since then, until this autumn, he had lost only three games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capablanca Bested | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...interclass and interdepartmental tournaments have advanced to their second stage, and the remainder of the matches will be played off soon to determine the teams, which will represent the College and the Graduate Schools in the first intramural championship tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR CRIMSON SQUASH TEAMS PLAY SATURDAY | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...last week bunched at a mark in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City. A half hour later, William Cox of Penn State had drawn the bunch out into a thin, ragged, gasping line. He traveled six miles in 30 minutes 36 4/5 seconds to win the intercollegiate cross country championship. Finishing five runners in the first 30, Penn State won the team championship. Another Penn Stater won the freshman chase, and the Penn State freshman team also won freshman team honors. Thus Penn State secured four championships; no college ever did that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hill, Dale | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Missouri ploughed peevishly through Oklahoma, after the latter had scored unexpectedly in the opening period. Missouri won the game 20-7 and with it the Missouri Valley Conference championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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