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...died Friday at 84. Some called him "Bantam Ben," because he stood a slight 5-foot-8. Some called him "The Hawk" for the way he analyzed a course. But the Scots called him "The Wee Ice Mon." Because he was Ben Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born on Feb. 2, 1949, when Hogan's car collided head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Master | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Smith tied Adolph Rupp as the winningest NCAA basketball coach when North Carolina beat Fairfield 82-74 in the opening round of the East Regional. But Smith's 876th victory wasn't nearly as easy as everyone predicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Madness: UNC Nips Fairfield | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

...then, the Crimson has won four more Ivy championships (including back-to-back crowns the last two seasons), earned two consecutive NCAA Tournament berths and made history this season by becoming the first team ever to complete an undefeated Ivy League season. Delaney-Smith is now the all-time winningest basketball coach--men's or women's--in Harvard history with 214 career victories...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Harvard's Very Own Coach K | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...stadium is where the National Football League's all-time winningest head coach, Don Shula, coached his first game for the Miami Dolphins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NFL's Boston Patriots Spent A Year in Harvard Stadium | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Harvard ended the season with its winningest spring ever (18-5) and its most wins since 1988, when it finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Win EITAs; Netwomen Defeated | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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