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Word: championship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grace of one touchdown, Notre Dame had won the national championship and finished its fourth undefeated season in a row. But the Irish had been in a football game and they knew it. Said Coach Frank Leahy: "The best team we've met all season . . . Kyle Rote is the most underrated back in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...only start this season, will play St. Paul's here today. At a squad meeting yesterday, Charles W. Ufford, of Haverford, Pennsylvania and Weld Hall was elected captain of the 1953 team. Ufford, a former captain and number one man at Deerfield, won the New England scholastic championship last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Tops Indians, 6-3, Despite Five Out Injured | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

There are plenty of television bans in other sports, but most of today's trouble is coming from boxing. Until the second Joe Louis-Jersey Joe Walcott championship, the promoters were quite chummy with the television people, but in that championship bout the gate took a big beating when the fans en masse decided it was easier and cheaper to get a ringside view of the fight in their own living rooms or in the taverns for the price of a few beers...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Ever since the Louis-Walcott fight, televised championships have become the rarity. Ray Robinson and others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, the Ivy League championship for the second year running went to Cornell, which put on a spectacular rally and sank Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Today! | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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