Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia and Princeton will meet for the Ivy League basketball championship tomorrow night at Nek Brunswick, N.J. Last night in a double header at Princeton, the Tigers defeated Brown, 58 to 39, momentarily tying Columbia and Pennsylvania for first place. The triple tie was broken two hours later when Columbia eliminated Penn...
...varsity hockey team will face the University of Michigan in the opening game of the NCAA Championship Tourney, Thursday...
Last week, as the tournament got under way in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, the Vs had more than the Russians between them and the championship. Finland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. had also entered teams. Each of them had 36 games to go, but the Canadians began by making it look easy. In Dortmund's Westphalenhalle Arena they trounced the U.S., 12-1. Outside, in the cold German winter, a red-bereted corporal of the Canadian occupation army blasted on a bugle while his buddies jeered: "Yankees go home, and learn to play...
...Although only Team Captain Charley Pratt won an individual event (60-yd. high hurdles), Manhattan College's trackmen ran off with enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...