Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilde has had no previous experience but has been a jack-of-all trades as as oarsmen. In his sophomore year he rowed on the next-to-last of Haines' thirty-one crews and also won the University 150-1b. single sculls championship. Switching to Weld Boat House in 1952, Wilde concentrated solely on single sculling and monopolized the University championships for the following two years...
...This time, in an earnest effort to relax, she read a few chapters of her favorite book: Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (see RELIGION). Refreshed, Shelley sprinted to the 100-yd. title, and a short half-hour later she won the 400-yd. medley championship as well...
...relay title. Army Lt. Betty Mullen, oldest of the Reed girls and a freestyle specialist before she swam for Tinkham, set a sure world record in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.4). With the whole team pitching in, the Walter Reed Swim piled up 95 points for their third championship in a row. Marveled a rival coach: "A crazy bunch of churning machines...
...Group today has a silver symbol--a gleaming trophy given by the Pennsylvania Class of 1925 for the winner of the Ivy Group football championship...
...course this was never said at the luncheon. But it was implied in every remark during the meeting and each handshake at its conclusion. After all, what could be a better sign of unity than a football championship trophy given by Pennsylvania, once the stormiest eleven in the East, now just one of seven other amateur teams...