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Word: runnerup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale won the Ivy League championship and Cornell was runnerup this season. The Crimson ended the season with a three and eight record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Places Two On Ivy Soccer List | 1/16/1957 | See Source »

Hurdler Joel Cohen, in his only race this season, provided the next upset. Although he had not run since breaking his foot during the indoor season, he nearly beat Yale's Jim Stocking, runnerup in the Heps high hurdles. He missed by a foot...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Track Team Humbles Elis, 77-63 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

League champion Columbia and runnerup Princeton each had three men on the first team. The three Lions were all selected for the top position in the epee, foil, and sabre events. One of them, Marvin Stein, finished this first League season undefeated in 13 matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thompson Selected As All-Star Fencer | 3/23/1956 | See Source »

...Diego, Gene Littler, national amateur golf champion, showed touring tournament pros how the game should be played. Over the par-72 course in the $15,000 San Diego Open, Amateur Littler fired rounds of 67, 66, 69, 72, beat the runnerup, Professional C. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, by 4 strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Dodger Second Baseman James ("Junior") Gilliam, who hit .278, fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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