Word: championship
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Soccer War. Tensions were brought to flash point last month by a series of soccer games. A three-game play-off was held to decide who would represent Central America in the World Cup soccer championship this year. El Salvador's team went to "Tegoose" (as Yankees call the Honduran capital) and lost 1-0 in overtime. Until game time for the rematch in the Salvadoran capital a week later, the Honduran players had to be hidden outside San Salvador. The Salvadorans won, and Hondurans retaliated by vandalizing Salvadoran stores in their country and boycotting Salvadoran goods. El Salvador...
...meter butterfly; 2) the American record in the 100-meter freestyle (52.6 sec.); 3) Don Schollander's world mark in the 200-meter freestyle (1 min. 54.3 sec.). Last spring, Spitz's sweep of three events led Indiana to the N.C.A.A. championship by 121 points. His performances since Mexico City have dispelled any doubt that he is still the world's premier swimmer...
...doing. When he decided to steal in baseball, his judgment was usually on the winning side." As center on the Montclair High School football team, he compensated for his smallness (5 ft. 10 in., 165 lbs.) with ferocity, and helped lead the team to its first league championship in 15 years. Those who played with him recall Aldrin's strong team loyalty. Says former Montclair Footballer Ted Cox Jr.: "This was big business with Buzz. You were blood brothers with him if you were playing football...
Harvard's loss to Leander was only one part of the blackest day for America in several years at Henley: seven United States entries had survived until the final two rounds last Saturday; only one, a Virginia high-school eight, won any championship that afternoon...
Died. Alene Stern Erlanger, 75, dog fancier and breeder of championship poodles, who, as civilian consultant to the quartermaster general from 1942 to 1945, was responsible for the formation and training of America's infantry scout-dog platoons (the K-9 Corps); in Elberon...