Word: undefeatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Purple lost practically all of its undefeated team last year through graduation. What little was left provided little competition for the varsity, except for the opening minutes of each half. Williams took 12 plays to march 70 yards for a touchdown, with most of the gains coming on three...
In the midst of a legal snarl over royalties, Leff posed some big questions about Joe's future. He had planned the birth of a baby boy, Buddy Palooka, for the end of October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as undefeated champion, plunge...
The Glory Days. At Maryland, Jim Tatum became the most successful major college coach in the game. Witty and winning, he was a tireless recruiter, prowling the hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia night after night for the agile, brawny kids he needed to make the split-T work. In...
¶ So merrily did Harvard row-row-row its boats up the Thames that the undefeated heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year...
But the fight experts only grinned and shrugged off Challenger Johansson, 26, as a good, clean-cut Swedish kid, an import of blue-eyed, dimpled innocence who would be diced into smorgasbord by the flashing attack of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody was impressed by the fact that Johansson was...