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Word: championships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, Coach Jack Barnaby has brought the championship to Cambridge three times in the last four years and no one will say that he won't do it again this year. Seven of his last year's team graduated in June while Princeton has lost no one. The squad that barely lost 5 to 4 to the Crimson last year is back intact. And Navy, second only to the Crimson last year, is supposedly stronger than over...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/2/1954 | See Source »

There was a time when a national collegiate squash championship for the Crimson didn't mean much. Squash, after all, was a gentleman's game, and where were there any gentlemen except at Harvard...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/2/1954 | See Source »

Perhaps it still is a gentleman's game, but the Big Three have found that the upstart gentlemen from Army, Navy, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Williams and Cornell have begun to muscle in A championship nowadays is an accomplishment...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/2/1954 | See Source »

...Sydney, Australia, Tony Trabert and Ham Richardson, the two top-seeded Americans in the New South Wales tennis championship, put on a miserable performance and were knocked out in early rounds. Winner in the all-Australian final: Rex Hartwig over left-hander Mervyn Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Dartmouth, in fact, was supposed to have the best relay team in the East. But Ulen had forced the Green to break up a championship foursome, and now he went ahead and beat the remnants. The Crimson took the meet...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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