Word: championships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...narrow blue eyes and an unathletic paunch puffing out his ample frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best to repeat that performance. As of this week, the Lions have been defeated only once (by the San Francisco Forty Niners...
...rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship. In four years at Texas he never lost a conference baseball game...
...broken heads-plus whatever a teammate could pick up by passing the hat. But they played on. Princeton's Arthur Poe and Yale's "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned out in Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. In 1902 a young man named Connie Mack claimed the "Championship of the U.S." for his Philadelphia Athletics after risking the good left arm of his prize pitcher, Rube Waddell, in the Athletics' football lineup. And in the title game that year, Pittsburgh fielded another big-league pitcher: a fireball artist named Christy Mathewson...
...made all the difference. Passing for two touchdowns, and running for a third, he beat the Packers 21-17. With only four games left to go (including a Thanksgiving-day rematch with the Packers), the Lions need only one more victory to sew up their third straight Western Conference championship...
...having the time of his life. "They're a wild bunch," says one of their opponents, "but they have an esprit de corps which most coaches in the league feel keeps them on top. It sounds sorta high-schoolish but in that play-off game for the championship last year, the Browns were ahead, 16-10, there were only a couple of minutes left to play, and the Lions had 80 yards or something to go for the winning touchdown. But in the huddle, Layne told them in that silly old Texas drawl of his, 'Jes' block...