Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team championship, Harvard does not stand much of a chance. Heckscher, because of his national rank, will be unable to play on the team, and since most other squads have an entire city or even country to draw upon, it seems unlikely that the varsity will be able to get past the first few rounds...
...July, 1956, the enthusiastic sports jumper captained an American team at the Third International Parachute Championship, held in Moscow. Part of last night's discussion included films taken at this meet. He also demonstrated what the well-dressed sky diver wears. Main items of equipment: a main and reserve parachute, an altimeter, a slightly modified football helmet and goggles...
...Just ten years after he won his first national foot-racing Championship, 32-year-old Reggie Pearman ran Olympic 400-Meter Champion Charley Jenkins out of his shoes and won the Mel Sheppard 600 in 1:11. Less than an hour later, he anchored a Pioneer Club mile-relay team that outlegged the N.Y.A.C. and set a new Millrose record...
...varsity squash team's hopes for its second straight Eastern and Ivy championship were rudely shattered by a very strong, well-balanced Princeton squad at Princeton yesterday. The Tigers used their great depth to hand the Crimson a decisive 6-3 setback...
This defeat makes it almost certain that the varsity will be unable to repeat last year's double championship performance. Even a win over Yale on March second would probably be futile, unless a major disaster strikes Navy and Yale during the next month...