Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BYRON NELSON GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). The final two rounds of the $100,000 tourney from the Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas will be continued Sunday afternoon...
...Fudging. As legend has it, the British marbling tourney traces its heritage to the days of Elizabethan chivalry. For the hand of a maiden, two 16th century swains clashed in an "all known sports" tournament in which marbles, for reasons now obscure, became the dominant contest. By the 1700s the marble tournament had become an annual Good Friday ritual in Tinsley Green. The tourney began in the morning; at high noon (the hour Sussex taverns open), the referee cried "Smug!" and the tournament ended. The rules are wondrously simple: 49 marbles are placed in the "pitch" (ring) and each member...
...they only other game, Czechoslovakia came from behind to defeat Finland and tie the Soviet Union for first place in the six-team tourney...
Captain-elect Paul Catinella and captain Howie Chatterton led Harvard's grapplers to an eight-place finish at the Eastern Inercollegiate tournament at Princeton this weekend. Catinella and Chatterton both captured fourth places, the first time two Harvard men have placed in this tourney in 23 years...
Boston University forward Herb Wakabayashi and Harvard defenseman Chris Gurry were also selected, but tourney champion Cornell dominated the vote as three members were chosen to the first six. Besides Dryden, Big Red co-captains Brian Cornell, a wing, and Bruce Pattison, a defenseman, were named...