Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson swimmers will be defending two titles--in the 200-yard relay and the 50-yard freestyle. A victory in the relay would give the Crimson permanent possession of the New England Championship trophy, since the squad already has one leg on it. Huebsch, Hedberg, MacNamara, and Rapperport are entered in the event...
...youngster, George was popular, bright and unspoiled-even though he got his first pony when he was only eight. At Saginaw High School he got top grades and was twice president of his class. He played some tennis, and was a steady ground-gaining halfback on the 1908 Saginaw championship football team. At the University of Michigan he took three semesters of engineering, then switched to law and graduated (1912) into a job in his father's firm...
...hour, so even my friends will leave me alone"), Mangrum travels 40,000 miles a year by car, another 40,000 by air in pursuit of the tournament dollar. Money-Player Mangrum's biggest kick: the $22,500 he won in two weeks in 1948 at the "world championship" at Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, his home course...
Over the vacation Difford defeated Dick Squires of Williams 3 to 0 for the University Club of New York championship...
When lanky Althea Gibson, Negro women's tennis champion, cracked the tennis color line in 1950, she soon proved that she could hold her own with the nation's best women players. Althea, then 22, reached the finals of her first National Indoor championship before losing to Nancy Chaffee. Fast improving with the chance to play against topflight competition, Althea went on to win the Good Neighbor Tournament (in Florida) and an international invitation tournament (in Germany). Last week, already enjoying a No. 9 national ranking, Althea became the first of her race to win another honor...