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  South American Championship 1925 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ninth South American Championship was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from November 29 to December 25, 1925.
In 1925, the participating countries were Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Chile and Uruguay withdrew from the tournament, making this event the one with the fewest participating teams.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_American_Championship_1925   (137 words)

  
 Virtual World Championships
6 24/10/1926 Uruguay 2-0 Argentina South American Champ.
5 20/11/1927 Argentina 3-2 Uruguay South American Champ.
1 10/11/1929 Argentina 4-1 Paraguay South American Champ.
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 Search Results for "1920s"
...American evangelist who preached at Oxford University in the 1920s, where he founded the Oxford Group, which later became the nucleus of Moral Re-Armament, a movement...
...American tennis player who dominated the sport in the 1920s, winning the U.S. men's singles championship seven times (1920-1925 and 1929) and the Wimbledon championship...
...American singer and songwriter who became a leading blues performer in the 1920s and made nearly 200 recordings, often with musicians such as Louis Armstrong and...
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 New York State American Legion Championship
1925 "In this city on July 17, 1925, by action of the South Dakota Department of The American Legion, the nationwide organization of Legion Junior Baseball was first proposed as a program of service to the youth of America".
Players nominated must be sponsored by a local American Legion Post, and must be a graduated senior or in their final year of high school.
The purpose continues to be in 2002 the same as was in 1925, "An investment in America's Youth." The history of American Legion Baseball has proven that America's youth receive on the baseball diamond a thorough understanding of the true value of sportsmanship, leadership and individual character building.
www.nystourney.com /page.cfm?pageid=5   (1001 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sport (N-Z)
The South American Championship is an Association Football championship for international teams initiated in 1917 and first played in Montevideo when it was won by Uruguay.
The South American Cup is an Association Football trophy introduced in 1960 to provide a team which would meet the winners of the European Cup.
The Thomas Cup is a silver-gilt trophy of the international badminton championship which was donated to the International Badminton Federation in 1939 by Sir George Thomas, then president of the federation.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/O2.HTM   (7207 words)

  
 Black History Tour
Thus fl Americans as a group was denied creative expression for more than a century, and it was not until the planters and merchants of the South grew rich and began to ornament their mansions and buildings that their artistic talents were employed.
When Joe Louis won the heavyweight boxing championship in 1937, Jesse Owens won in the 1936 Olympics, and Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente were selected as the National League MVP in 1949 and 1966 respectively, the African American role in sports began to be important if not dominant.
Black Americans and all Americans owe a lot to the brave men and women who fought to end injustices and also for their contributions to America's history.
library.advanced.org /10320/Tour.htm   (8829 words)

  
 Cultural Impact of Religion in American Society.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
American Religious Traditions is enhanced by an eight-page gallery of photos and graphics and includes a CD-ROM with the full text of the book, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and Web resources.
AMERICAN CATHOLIC is a tour de force, as important for Catholics who want a better understanding of their roots as for non-Catholics interested in the powerful forces that have shaped American society.
These American Catholics are united by a common conviction: in the space of just three decades, the mainstream Catholic church in the United States and elsewhere has fallen into alarming decline, and the task of preserving authentic Catholicism (and thus Christianity itself) from outright extinction has fallen to small bands of the truly faithful.
www.sirreadalot.org /religion/religion/americanreligionR.htm   (6366 words)

  
 Terra Foundation for American Art: Symposia: Doss Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Among American art scholars, the new narrative of American modernism is similarly driven by understandings that its standard trajectory from representational to nonobjective modes of painting, culminating in the critical conquest of Abstract Expressionism, is limiting and exclusive.
Likewise, it is important to recognize that early American modernist resolutions were rarely attained because flux and uncertainty, not stability and closure, were the key elements in an open-ended and dynamic modern world, and because issues of power and authority undermined more egalitarian aspirations regarding the boundaries of class, race, and gender.
The American Historical Epic was originally proposed as a series of ten chapters with five panels each, ranging in theme from European arrival, conquest, confrontation, and settlement in the New World, through frontier exploration, slavery, the Civil War, and the emergence of modern American industry; Benton completed only three chapters, ending with colonial history.
www.terramuseum.org /scholarship/doss.shtml   (2944 words)

  
 Jews in Golf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1968 Bruce Fleisher (1948-) won the United States amateur championship, and, with Richard Siderowf, was a member of the winning U.S. team at the world amateur championships in Australia.
American Amy Alcott was the top newcomer on the ladies' professional tour in 1975, and was a leading money winner in 1976 and 1978.
Richard Siderowf, an American, won the Canadian Amateur in 1971 and the British Amateur in 1973 and 1976.
www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/golfhistory.htm   (482 words)

  
 The History of American Legion Baseball
The tremendous increase in the number of teenagers interested in supervised recreation provided by this program is a continuing challenge to American Legionnaires everywhere to improve and expand their efforts, just as those have have come before them have done.
American Legion Baseball became a National program by convention action in 1925, and the first National Tournament was held in 1926.
The purpose continues to be in 2000 the same as was in 1925, "An investment in America's Youth." The history of American Legion Baseball has proven that America's youth receive on the baseball diamond a thorough understanding of the true value of sportsmanship, leadership and individual character building.
www.tricitylegion.org /albbhist.htm   (997 words)

  
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Throughout the middle ages and during the American colonial period, the Court noted, “part of the very nature of a criminal trial was its openness to those who wished to attend.” Id. at 568.
Coverage of the trial of a championship boxer who was accused of attempting to bribe an opponent into losing a fight between the two.
In fact, I believe Americans should not just be allowed, but actively encouraged, to watch the workings of the most powerful court in the world.
www.senate.gov /comm/judiciary/general/testimony.cfm?id=1672&wit_id=4805   (5036 words)

  
 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Biographies
The AAGPBL evolved through many stages, including shifting from underhand to sidearm to overhand pitching; lengthening the distance to the pitcher's mound and between the bases; and decreasing the size of the ball--from 12 inches in circumference in 1943 to 9 1/4 inches (regulation baseball size) in 1954.
Although her excellent performance fell short of leading South Bend to a title in 1949, her team did climb from sixth place to a tie for first.
South Bend's Jan Rumsey, who became the pitching champion in 1954, remembers Faut as an outstanding third baseman and hurler: "We all looked to Jean for leadership and felt confident whenever she was pitching."
www.aagpbl.org /articles/biographies.cfm?ID=4   (3323 words)

  
 Chronology of African American Events in Loudoun County, Virginia
November 1859: Rumors of impending conflict between the North and the South prompt three civil guard units to monitor the Potomac crossings and scout areas around Short Hill and in the Blue Ridge.
1925: The average annual salary for white teachers is $836.10, for fl teachers, $358.12.
April 25, 1938: County funds are expended for health care of fls for the first time—$100 “for dental clinic for colored children.” White children receive $400, a fair apportionment based on the percentage of fls to whites in the county’s population.
www.loudounhistory.org /history/african-american-chronology.htm   (9598 words)

  
 American Express Championship - World Golf Championships
Francis Ouimet, an unknown amateur from Boston, may have scored a tremendous victory over British professionals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in the 1913 U.S. Open, but the Professional Golfers Association of America was only a few years old.
Lake Merced Golf Club had also acquired land in 1922 and was in the process of constructing its course further to the south, just across the county line.
The official “opening day” for Harding Park was July 18, 1925, but the story is not quite that simple, for the Recreation and Park Department decided to hold a week-long tournament to test its newest creation.
www.worldgolfchampionships.com /news/story/r473/8923956   (1118 words)

  
 Traditions University of South Carolina :: The Official Athletic Site
South Carolina compiled an 18-12 mark in that span...
South Carolina's all-time pass receiving leader with 169 career catches for 2,497 yards, 17 touchdowns...
Originally a walk-on from St. George, S.C. finished his South Carolina career as the all-time leader in receptions (146) and yards (1,876), school records at the time and still in the top five...
uscsports.cstv.com /trads/scar-hof.html   (5405 words)

  
 African-American Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Influenced by the demand for her to devote her time to the anti-slavery lecture circuit, she stopped making trips to the South.
Taylor and the other American runners refused to race in the re-run, so Englishman Wyndham Halswelle was declared the winner by default.
Taylor and his American teammates won the gold in the 1600-meter relay.
www.derylmitchell.com /id83.html   (2904 words)

  
 Al “Flip” Rosen
He led the American League in RBIs in 1952 (105) and 1953 (145).
He again captured the long ball championship in 1953 with 43 homers, just missing the coveted Triple Crown when his.336 batting average fell.0011 short of winning the American League batting title.
Rosen led the American League in total bases in 1952 and 1953, and in slugging percentage in 1953.
www.jewishsports.net /biopages/AlRosen.htm   (201 words)

  
 Legion Baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The American Legion is committed to America's youth and that is why we have sponsored American Legion Baseball since 1925.
American Legion Baseball is the oldest and largest, nationwide, baseball program in America.
The American Legion Player of the Year is honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum with a plaque at the annual induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.
post59.us /id32.htm   (532 words)

  
 Soccer Saints | Featuring the greatest futbol, futebol, and soccer stars and players, past and present; World Cup ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born in Montevideo in 1925, Schiaffino broke into the Peñarol youth team as a 17 year old and a year later was a first-teamer.
At 19, he was a member of Uruguay's South American championship squad.
In the 1950 World Cup he was the second highest goalscorer with five goals, including an equallizer against Brazil in the final, which set Uruguay on the road to victory.
www.soccersaints.com /l66.htm   (260 words)

  
 history1951
The Legislation creating STSTC and TCAI had been specific about this school being created for the “White” boys and girls of this state, and it took almost two years before the first African American woman, was admitted.
The Board was hesitant, and the Alumni expressed distress, but, the students seemed ready to move ahead on integration in the matter of African Americans.
By 1959 he claimed the first of six national NAIA championship, three of them consecutively, for this school.
archives.tamuk.edu /history1951.htm   (452 words)

  
 American History Timeline
The compromise eases tensions between the increasingly industrial North and the agricultural, slaveholding South by prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36° 30´ latitude.
Fort Sumter, a Union fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, is reinforced.
Black Hills of South Dakota, the Sioux sacred hunting territory that was ceded to the tribe in the
www.fofweb.com /onfiles/Ama/amamastertimeline2.htm   (8815 words)

  
 TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY
Brenda Renee Pearson an official court reporter for the House of Representatives was the first fl female to record the State of the Union message delivered by the president in the House Chambers.
Figure skater Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the Women's Singles of the U.S. National Figure Skating Championship competition, was a pre-med student at Stanford University.
Bull quoted Rooney as having said during an interview: "I've believed all along that most people are born with equal intelligence, but Blacks have watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the children.
www.sarasota.usf.edu /StudentAffairs/Documents/FEB8BLKHIST.htm   (305 words)

  
 A Timeline of African Americans in West Virginia
In 1867, Storer was incorporated by the state as a school for African Americans under the leadership of the Rev. Nathan C. Brackett.
This case was eventually tried in the United States Supreme Court, in which it was ruled unconstitutional to try an African American in a court system which forbade eligible African Americans from serving on juries as was the case in West Virginia.
On December 10, two African Americans accused of killing two white constables were forcibly removed from the Greenbrier County jail and lynched by a mob of white men.
www.wvculture.org /history/timeline.html   (3471 words)

  
 American Legion: Bringing Teams Together For 80 Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
American Legion baseball is 80 years old in 2005 and it returns to its roots this month when it stages its World Series in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Aug. 19-23.
In Milbank, South Dakota, on July 17, 1925, the South Dakota Department of the American Legion proposed a nationwide activity of junior baseball "as a program of service to the youth of America." The Legion was just a few years old then, having been formed immediately after World War I in 1918.
Legion Baseball became a national program by convention action later in 1925, and the first national tournament was held in 1926, with 16 states represented.
www.journal-topics.com /sports/05/sp050810.7.html   (348 words)

  
 American Legion Baseball in Minnesota
The Minnesota State Champion (i.e., the winner of the Minnesota American Legion State Tournament) then goes on to play in the Central Plains Regional Tournament, which is sponsored by the National American Legion.
One team, Tri-City Red (which earned State Championships in 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000, Central Plains Regional Championships in 1997 and 1999, and a National Championship in 1999), competes in the 4th District and provides baseball opportunities for young men residing in the Moundsview school district.
With this strong presence in American Legion Baseball, the Tri-City Legion is proud of the contributions it has made to the ongoing success and popularity of American Legion Baseball across Minnesota and our great nation.
www.tricitybaseball.org /mnalb.htm   (702 words)

  
 http://www.KenAston.org - World Cup 1950   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the FIFA congress in Luxembourg in July 1946, Brazil was the only candidate to host the World Cup in 1950, although it was originally planned to be held in 1949.
The decision to stage the fourth World Cup in South America stemmed from the fact that a large part of Europe was still in turmoil after the war.
They were reining South American champions and interest in football was reaching remarkable levels of fanaticism in that vast country.
www.kenaston.org /World_Cup/WorldCup1950.htm   (1327 words)

  
 African-Americans in Motion Pictures
The Chicago American Giants was formulated under the leadership of Andrew "Rube"Foster in baseball.
Oscar was not fond of living and working on his parents' farm, therefore he moved at age 17 to Chicago and stayed with an older brother who worked with the Chicago railroad as a pullman porter.
Race movies were low-budgeted and mostly aimed at fl audiences in segregated movie-houses of the South and where large city fl populations dwelled in the North.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/african/movies.htm   (7210 words)

  
 Spalding's official base ball guide, 1930: a machine-readable transcription.
In some leagues there was complaint of lack of patronage and in one or two instances championships were won at a loss to the clubs that put forth the winning teams.
If an owner goes forward with his team to win a championship, when he knows he will lose money by doing so, he is a patriotic chap to his city, but he must not find fault with Base Ball for a condition which was purely of his 'own making.
Vitt did well in winning the championship for Hollywood, and Killefer kept the Missions in the front of the race until the second half of the season, when his team seemed to tire more than that of Hollywood.
lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/spalding/00172/00172.sgm   (12667 words)

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