Word: championships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Jesus Pimentel stepped from the ring in San Antonio last week after fighting for what was billed as the North American Bantamweight championship, the city's Mexican-American majority had two reasons to be pleased. Not only had the Mexican contender won, but the fight also netted $1,000 for an unlikely beneficiary: Holy Cross High School, a parochial school that serves San Antonio's poorest Chicano neighborhood (median family income...
Building a championship team in Washington will be no mean feat-even for Lombardi. Huff is retiring for good now, and Jurgensen will be 36 next August. Still, N.F.L. coaches have noted that Washington's won-lost record is almost the same as the 7-5 compiled by Green Bay in 1959-the year Lombardi took over as head coach. Says Dallas Coach Tom Landry: "Like everyone else, Vince will have to build his team up with the draft. Only in his case, he makes things happen quicker...
...tied; it can do nothing to stop this injustice. It is up to Quincy House to act on the illegal affairs of Wednesday afternoon. Granted, Dancer's Image was stripped only of the Kentucky Derby crown, whereas Tarnas would be forced to surrender the Quincy House Pancake Eating championship, But he deserves the punishment. Honest contestants must not be made victims of such trickery...
...Harvard captain is presently ranked number one in national collegiate standings and should be seeded first in the University Tournament when it begins at 11 a.m. today. Peter Marin, Canada's number-one Men's Amateur player, beat Terrell in the championship match two years ago, and Harvard's Anil Nayar edged his teammate for the title last season...
Thanks to a contracted mind and an expanded stomach, Richard T. Tarnas 72 Chewed up the competition along with 171/2 pancakes to win the Quincy House Pancake-Eating Championship...