Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine shooting by Bill Nichols and freshman Dick Tompkins enabled the NROTC rifle team to win the First Naval District Championship Saturday. The Crimson, with 977 points, edged Dartmouth by 12 tallies...
Good shooting by Bill Nichols and Dick Tompkins enabled the NROTC rifle team to win its second consecutive First Naval District championship over the weekend...
...same story was repeated all along the North Shore as thousands of Chicagoans poured out of the city searching for TV sets that could pick up Milwaukee's station WTMJ-TV. They left home because none of Chicago's four TV stations were carrying the middleweight championship fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano at the Chicago Stadium; the promoters had barred the local stations to ensure a good crowd...
...that "he would fight at the drop of a hat -just for the hell of it." Another remembers: "I never saw him in the summer without a baseball glove, or in the winter without a soccer ball." (He was the high-scoring star of Northeast High School's championship soccer team.) Lester Owen, Eddie's high-school gym teacher, was impressed by the Stanky single-mindedness: "It was baseball that Eddie came to high school for. He said he was going to be a pro baseball player. That was that. No one doubted him. He wasn...
Outstanding light-weather sailing over the weekend by Johnny Bishop and Jim Nathanson brought the varsity sailors their first Eastern Championship since...