Word: championships
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Last week's decisive victory over Dartmouth has started a good deal of talk about the possibilities of the varsity winning the Ivy League championship this fall. Today's contest will go far towards determining whether this is just empty and over-optimistic chatter, or something to be taken quite seriously...
Both Harvard and Yale are undefeated this season and the Crimson holds the Big Three Championship from last year. Should the harriers win, it would be their fourteenth consecutive win in dual or triangular competition and their fifth Big Three crown in seven tries...
Undefeated Dunster and Winthrop will not meet until Nov. 19. This game may well decide which House will represent Harvard in the Little Big Game with Yale the following Saturday. Championship House teams will also play their opposite numbers from Yale in touch football, basketball, hockey, soccer, squash, swimming, baseball, golf, rowing, tennis, and softball...
...mechanic, Fangio was 28 before he attracted international attention by finishing fifth in the Gran Premio Extraordinario Argentino. Not until he was 38 did a manufacturer (Alfa Romeo) sign him up to race full time. In his second year under contract (1951), the phlegmatic Fangio won the world driving championship. He won it again four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck...
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Oct. 19--Mike Hawthorn yesterday became the first Briton to win the world auto driving championship by finishing second to Stirling Moss, another English ace, in the Grand Prix of Morocco. The race was the final grand prix of the season and Hawthorn clinched the title in the final moment...