Word: championships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just a game, and it is a long way from Moscow. But for the Kremlin, the world chess championship beginning in the Philippine mountain resort of Baguio City this week is a grudge match involving national pride and politics. Philippines President Marcos had spent a fortune providing a new 1,000-seat amphitheater and other facilities for the event. As newsmen and chess aficionados from all over began to gather, much of the early betting was not on who would win but on just how many of the Soviets accompanying Anatoly Karpov, 27, the slim, intense defending champion from Leningrad...
...wheezing touch-football stalwarts assembled in Manhattan's Central Park were not exactly current championship contenders. Present were members of the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants who played in the N.F.L.'s electrifying, first-ever overtime final in 1958 (the Colts won, 23-17). On hand were such Baltimore ex-greats as Johnny Unitas, 45, Raymond Berry, 45, and Gino Marchetti, 51. On the Giants side were Charley Conerly, 56, Frank Gifford, 47, and Kyle Rote, 50. Primed on beer and banter, the Baltimoreans puffed and passed to a 28-14 victory, overcoming such verbal assaults...
McInally left with everything except an Ivy League football championship for himself, and while McDermott was no glamour boy, his glamorous moments as a junior during the 1975 season copped the Crimson its first out right championship ever...
...Golden Helmet Award as New England's top college player in 1975, his junior year. During that season, McDermott caught three touchdown passes to lead Harvard over Dartmouth, and also caught a fourthdown pass against Yale to set up the field goal that gave Harvard the Ivy League championship...
...years of coaching baseball in Pawtucket, Nahigian won ten divisional titles and one state championship. His efforts were recognized and he became head baseball coach at Providence in 1960. He had 16 winning seasons with the Friars, who appeared in NCAA postseason play in nine of those years. In nine of the past 12 seasons, his teams ranked in the top ten nationally in team defense, and twice (1972 and '75) were national fielding leaders...