Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three and a half years in the Navy and one tune-up race, MacMitchell last week picked the Metropolitan A.A.U. 1,000-yard run for his championship debut -and showed that he had momentarily forgotten all he knew about foot racing. He got off to a poor start, tried to make up too much ground too quickly, was caught in traffic jams and bumped off stride. Result: the former N.Y.U. miler came in third-behind Manhattan College's blond Fred Sickinger...
Nobody had to tell the Amateur Athletic Union that many of the swiftest U.S. runners were Negroes. Yet the A.A.U. decided to hold its June championship track meet in Dixie, at San Antonio, where any Negro athlete would think two or three times about appearing...
...football's greatest passer faded behind his goal line, cocked his arm for a risky pass. The ball hit a goal post, bounced back into the end-zone for a safety and a two-point deficit. That deficit cost the Washington Redskins the world's pro football championship...
...Rams had their own steamed-up passer, Bob Waterfield, whom not even near-zero weather could cool off. Besides his ball-handling magic and coffin-corner kicks, Quarterback Bob threw passes all afternoon, completed 14 of 27, two of them for the touchdowns that put the Rams on the championship end of a 15-14 score...
...swank Los Angeles Tennis Club setting was a step up from the U.S. pro championship, held last summer in Manhattan, on the miserable Rip's Courts at 39th & Park...