Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushed all the way to the Cleveland Browns' 23-yd. line. Then Jungle Jim Martin came in and casually kicked a field goal. The Lions had used up just eleven plays and already they were out three points in front in the fight for the National Football League Championship...
Died. Robert Carl Zuppke, 78, alltime great football coach (University of Illinois, 1913-41); of cancer; in Champaign, Ill. Sharp-witted "Zup," German immigrant, played football (but won no letter) at the University of Wisconsin, at Illinois created teams that for 15 years were challengers for the Big Ten championship (overall record: 131 victories, 81 defeats, 12 ties, 7 conference titles...
Last spring Assassin Ben Sadok, mingling with the crowd pouring from Colombes Stadium after a championship soccer game, shot and killed 60-year-old All Chekkal, onetime vice president of the Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that...
...Philosophy. During his early days at Kansas, The Stilt scored astronomically, but he proved to be stoppable. In the finals of the N.C.A.A. championship, North Carolina tied up Kansas by letting four men sag all over The Stilt, and won the game, 54-53-As demonstrated in the Palestra, the rest of the Kansas team is capable of practicing a new philosophy: each does his share of scoring, instead of feeding Wilt. So it is no longer good play for any club to collapse its defense on Wilt; the Jayhawkers have some outside shooters who are too dangerous...
Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...