Word: co-champions
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...suddenly replaced huge N. Y. U., whose team had lost three out of its last four games, as New York City's basketball favorite. A crowd of 13,000 gathered there to watch the Long Islanders play a team far more publicized than their earlier opponents: Rice Institute, co-champion of the strong Southwestern Conference, whose regulars are all over six feet tall. Day of the game, Coach Bee shamefacedly announced that all his men had lost their uniforms. Amused Rice players courteously offered to lend some of theirs. When the game started, L. I. U. smartly boxed Rice...
...contests, earned a mythical No. i rating in the East. Fortnight ago it throttled. 41-to-26, the University of California, which by next week will have junketed 6,000 miles to display its talent. Purdue had an equally good record. Winner of three Big Ten championships since 1930, co-champion last year, this year's quintet had also toppled California, trounced Notre Dame. Added incentive to action was the announcement that, for the first time, the U. S. will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation...