Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After half a century of futility, and seven failures (1916 to 1953) in World Series tries, Brooklyn's first world baseball championship came the hard way. The Dodgers were up against baseball's greatest money team, the New York Yankees, unbeaten in seven series since 1942. The Dodgers lost the first two games; no team ever had come on to win a seven-game series* after such a poor start. Even when they erased the deficit by winning the next three games, the Dodgers' hopes were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets...
Eliot House senior Chuck Foster could add more to Mrs. Owen's story. He and Maribel, her 15-year old daughter, won the National Junior Pairs Championship last April. At present they are hoping to receive an invitation to compete in next year's Olympics. The "noted instructor" has coached them ever since they started skating a year...
...busy weekend is in store for the varsity and freshman salling teams. The varsity sailors will race at a Raven heptagonal meet at Coast Guard this afternoon and in the preliminaries of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Championship on the Charles at 9 a.m. Sunday...
...squad in tomorrow's N.E.I.S.A. contest against Amherst, Boston College, and Rhode Island. At the same time, a skilled M.I.T. team, which has twice defeated the Crimson this year, will compete with three other colleges in New London. The twin events precade the elimination bouts for the New England championship...
...like old times-a subway series, the Yanks and the Dodgers again, scrapping for the baseball championship of the world. But in Brooklyn at least, fans had a feeling that, this once, things might be different. Seven times since the turn of the century the Dodgers, winning a pennant, had lost the World Series. Five times the Yankees had knocked them off. This once, Dodger fans figured to be backing a winner...