Word: championships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent minutes, the Dallas Cowboys seemed on their way to gaining a measure of revenge on the Green Bay Packers who had whipped them two years in a row for the National Foot ball League championship. In the first half, Quarterback Don Meredith rifled a touchdown pass to Bob Hayes; after that, he engineered a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green...
Wild and Unrestrained. That was in December. Now Woroner is back with the Ail-Time Middleweight Tournament and Championship Fight. But this time, he has a network of 650 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and advertising sales of about $4.5 million. His show might well be called the All-Time Most Successful Independently Produced Radio Series...
With the addition of taped sound effects and a breathless, leather-swinging commentary by Sportscaster Guy Le-Bow, Woroner packaged the simulated matches into a 16-week radio series and billed it as the All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight. Few radio men gave the series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations...
...scene is the Los Angeles Coliseum, packed with roaring, screaming fans watching a National Football League championship play-off game. The star is Jim Brown, once the most celebrated fullback in professional football. But is Brown bucking the line? Nope. This time he's lining up the buck. Aided by a gang of professional goons-Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Gates, Donald Sutherland-Brown is robbing the Coliseum...
...Harvard cross country team will be shooting for its second straight Heptagonal Championship when it lines up against seven Ivy League rivals plus Army and Navy in New York this afternoon...