Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grays Hall plied up 715 points, the largest number in history, to capture the freshman intramural athletic championship, Bob Abboud, freshman intramural director, announced recently...
...only other team with a chance for the title, Boston College just week suffered its second league loss and the varsity, with a perfect 5-0 league mark can now afford to drop its last league contest against Tufts on June 10 and still retain the championship...
...right mind really thought that Don Cockell, chubby heavyweight champion of the British Empire, belonged in the same ring with Rocky Marciano. Day after day, before the two fighters tangled for the world championship in San Francisco last week, dutiful British sportswriters beat the drums for the Battersea Butterball. But most of the time it was easier to explain why Don might lose. For one thing, the 16½ft. square ring was too small. For another, the Britons reminded their readers, U.S. boxing is rotten with rackets. In Philadelphia, a light heavyweight named Harold Johnson claimed to have been...
...Limping along on an injured foot, Barbara Romack, 22, champion U.S. amateur woman golfer, lost the British amateur championship by spraying her drives all over the windswept Royal Portrush course in Northern Ireland. Winner, by 7 and 6: Scotland's Mrs. Jessie Valentine, 40, who first took the title 18 years ago when Barbara was just four years old. ¶ After two years of digging in newspapers and record books, Philadelphia Baseball Fan John G. Tattersall discovered that statisticians have been shortchanging oldtime Second Baseman Napoleon Lajoie. Credited with a .405 batting average in 1901, Nap actually...
What does the music tourist have to choose from in Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen...