Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...
...Crimson Rugby Club will try for its fourth spring victory this afternoon as it takes on the Montreal Wanderers at the North Woburn playground field. The first game since spring vacation, this starts a six-game series that will decide the winner of the Eastern Rugby Union championship...
...contest with Yale is always the highlight of any varsity season. In recent years, however--particularly in such sports as tennis, squash and swimming--the concluding match with the Elis has also often decided Eastern League and Big Three championship races. The current tennis campaign, which starts next Wednesday with a match against M.I.T., is likely to follow a similar pattern, for coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity and its Yale counterparts again stand out as the two top teams in the East...
Kirkland compiled a perfect record of seven victories and no defeats to win the House volleyball championship. Winthrop (6-1) placed second, while Adams (4-3) and Dunster (4-3) tied for third. Rounding out the standings were Leverett (3-4), Lowell (3-4), Dudley (1-6), and Eliot...
Beset by accidents, the Crimson swimming team scored only three points in the National championship finals at Ithaca, N.Y. "It was a Big Ten tournament," Coach Bill Brooks said, "and none of the Eastern teams did very well...