Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestling's hypothetical crown; of leukemia; in the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. Cauliflower-eared Sonnenberg played football for Dartmouth and the Providence Steamrollers, taught in Detroit high schools, introduced football's flying tackle to wrestling, topped most of his ringmates in grunting & groaning. He once lost a "championship" when a moth flew into his mouth and choked...
...Southern California, the best bet on the West Coast, had eight lettermen from its 1944 Rose Bowl championship team...
Behind the two-hit pitching of its ace, Ronald Wright, Company C topped Lowell, 3-2, in a special play-off last Saturday, and won the championship in the Intramural baseball league...
...Tuesday past saw Company 3's championship softball team defeat the champs of the Midshipman Class, 8 to 3 after putting down a stubborn Senior team the week previous in order to enter the finals...
...turf was green and firm; the weather was good; the flags flapped gaily; everything was right for the 63rd National tennis championships-except for an acute shortage of championship-caliber tennis. Of the 32 entrants in the men's singles at Forest Hills last week, 16 were servicemen-on-leave, four were juniors, several were near-veterans. But with the help of three Latin Americans, this wartime talent nevertheless managed to put on a good show...