Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murphy is "best all around player," according to Harper. He's a good shot, competent on defense, but his greatest attribute is plenty of basketball know-how. Murphy played with a state championship team in his high school days and later spent some time on a top grade service team...
...intramural athletics for freshmen, similar to the House League. Under the guidance of a graduate secretary, the League got off to a rousing start in the fall with a series of 75 touch football games in which 16 entry teams participated. Enthusiasm has continued strong with the current basketball championship, and plans for the future include swimming, squash, and tennis...
...team captain Bill Hickey. "Murphy is probably the best all around player, a good shot and good defensive man, but you have to remember he's had the most experience and the other boys may still catch up with him," Harper said. Murphy played with a state high school championship team in Iowa...
Another potential refugee from pro football is Alexis Thompson, 34, who last week hung a For Sale sign on his Philadelphia Eagles. Only last month Thompson's Eagles won the National Football League championship from the Conzelman-coached Cardinals in a blinding snowstorm. But because of the war with the rival All-America Football Conference (which has boosted halfbacks' salaries to as high as $20,000 a season), he finished $29,000 in the red with his championship team. Says Thompson, who in 1930 inherited $5,000,000 from his steel-baron father: "I no longer think football...
...Yardling reading period basketball tournament was finished last night with Hollis defeating Matthews South, 27 to 23, to win the championship. The Hollis team was behind at the half and came back to triumph in overtime...