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1908--Jack Johnson becomes the first African-American heavyweight champ by knocking out Tommy Burns in Australia.

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1924-The first Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France.

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In 1961/62 Wilt Chamberlain scored 4,029 points the only player to do so.

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50s------Politics--Churchill's words rally the British--happening in

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Freedom Hall-- March 21,1959--Center Darrell Imhoff's tip-in with 17 seconds left gives California and coach Pete Newwell a 71/70 NCAA title-game victory over West Virginia at Louisville. The Bears over-come a game-high 28 points effort from Mountaineers junior Jerry West,who is named Most Outstanding Player.

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Madison Square Garden, March 28,1950--Ten days after defeating Bradley 69/61 for the NIT crown, the CCNY Beavers topple the Braves again, this time by a score of 71/68, becoming the only team to win the NIT and NCAA tournament in the same season.

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Reynolds Coliseum 12/30/1950

Trailing 54/22 with 2:00 remaining in the first half at Raleigh, Duke outscored Tulane 52/18 the rest of the way to triumph 74/72 and achieves the largest successful comeback in college basketball history.

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Cumberland vs George Tech--10/07/1916

1st quarter ended--63-00
2nd quarter ended--126-00

Yellow Jacket's coach John Heisman did not throw a pass and neither team made a first down all game. Cumberland fumble nine times;Tech's Jim Preas was 18 for 18 on conversions. The final score --George Tech 222, Cumberland 00-still records for total points and margin of victory in a college game.

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Notre Dame vs Army--11/01/1913

After having scant sucess going through Army's rock-solid line the first quarter, the visiting Irish decided to go over it: Gus Dorais threw the ball repeatedly to Joe Pliska and Knute Rockne, completed an astounding 13 of 17 passes for 243 yards, shocking the Cadets 35/13 and ushering in a new era of offensive football.

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Carisle vs Army--11/09/1912

To take full advantage of Jim Thorpe's running, passing and punting prowess, Carisle coach Pop Warner had devised a formation called the single wing. Army's fabled defense, which included a cadet named Dwight Eisenhower, keyed on Thorpe, but he still sprinted for a 97-yd touchdown as the underdog Indians thrashed the Cadets 27/06

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Yale

New Haven was the hothouse of football, home to such seminal figures as Walter Camp,Amos Alonzo Stagg and Pudge Heffelfinger.In 47 seasons from 1872-1919, the Elis were judged the national champion 11 times--the same number of seasons in which the Elis' opponents were all held scorless.

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Notre Dame By pioneering the forward pass and building a myth around doomed triple-threat star George Gipp, the formidale Fighting Irish became the nation's most popular team. The game's most hallowed figure, Knute Rockne, arrived first as an ace receiver, than [starting in 1918 as coach]

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Princton After a defeat by Rutgers in the first college football game, in 1869, the Tigers went 59 years without a losing season,going unbeaten 21 times and winning seven national titles. All- Americas included Edgar Allan Poe, Philip King,Langdon Lea and Arthur Wheeler.

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