However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

* National football championship ( this article pertains to systems of determining a national champion prior to and including the BCS )

Johnson became the first coach to claim a national championship in college football and a Super Bowl victory in professional football.

Switzer joined Johnson as the only coaches to win a college football national championship and a Super Bowl.

Qualification is based on achieving minimum scores at earlier competitions in the season, although athletes who place very highly at a national championship will be automatically qualified to compete at the next.

The figure skating team won the national championship five straight times from 2004 through 2008.

The United States holds two national level university tournaments including the NCAA championship and the USACFC National Championships tournaments in the USA and the BUCS fencing championships in the United Kingdom.

A rear-engined T51 of the type Brabham used to win his first world championship. On arriving in Europe on his own in early 1955, Brabham based himself in the UK, where he bought another Cooper to race in national events.

That year he also won the national boxing championship and an international gymnastics championship.

In college at UCLA, he played on three consecutive national championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games.

North made five consecutive Grand Finals from 1974 – 1978 ) and defeated Norwood in the 1975 national championship to be declared Champions of Australia.

The PJC Dragon's Men's basketball team won the NJCAA national championship in 2005.

In 2003, the Owls won their first national championship in baseball, which was the first for the university in any team sport, beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then the University of Texas and Stanford University twice each en route to the title.

In 1973, Othello became a commercial success in Japan and held its first national championship.

The Elfstedentocht has been held 15 times in the nearly 100 years since 1909, and, before artificial ice was available in 1962, national championships had been held in 25 of the years between 1887, when the first championship was held in Slikkerveer, and 1961.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

Dorsett won both championships in the same building ; Pitt clinched the 1976 national championship by defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1977.

Finally, Jimmy Johnson was looking to become the first head coach to win a college football national championship ( University of Miami in 1987 ) and a Super Bowl.

Bobby Ross became the second coach, after Jimmy Johnson in Super Bowl XXVII, to lead a team to a college football national championship ( Georgia Tech in 1990 ) and a Super Bowl.

Barry Switzer became the second head coach, after former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, to win a college football national championship ( University of Oklahoma 1974, 1975, 1985 ) and a Super Bowl title.

Eurisko discovered exploitable features of the starship design system that allowed it to build an unusual fleet that won the 1981 TCS national championship.

Top teams from the championship series compete in semi-annual world championships regulated by the WFDF ( alternating between Club Championships and National Championships ), made up of national flying disc organizations and federations from about 50 countries.

In addition to the World Floorball Championships, there are other IFF Events for club teams such as the Champions Cup which is for the national competition winners from the Top-4 ranked nations, and the EuroFloorball Cup for the national competition winners from the 5th and lower ranked nationsl.

The EuroFloorball Cup ( EFC ) is now for the national competition winners from the 5th and lower ranked nations.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

The national winners were Senatobia Middle School in Senatobia, Mississippi, in the elementary division and Tallulah Falls School in Tallulah Falls, Georgia, in the upper school division.

This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ( also begun in 1955 ).

One proposal was for a tournament based upon the format of the Champions ' Cup, but with national cup winners rather than champions taking part, which could run alongside that competition.

This contest takes the winners from national yo-yo contests around the world and pits them against each other.

Among the businesses in Rushsylvania is Michael Angelo's Pizza, which is owned by and employs winners of national and worldwide pizza-making competitions.

There have been 4 state officers from Milan High and many state and national competitive event winners.

The first draws are made in August, then the competition runs as two parallel north and south area competitions, before the two winners meet in late March or early April in the final at England's national stadium, Wembley.

Usually a country's candidate selection involves pageants in major cities, with the winners competing in a national pageant, but this does not always occur.

Chapter winners compete against each other by region and nationally ; national winners receive a monetary award.

* The memorial shrine of Paul the Octopus in the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, who predicted national soccer match winners by choosing between two food boxes labelled with flags

They were the winners of the Apple Records sponsored national talent contest early 1969, organised by Apple A & R head Peter Asher prior to his departure for the US.

First, in the Final of the Autoglass Trophy – the club's first appearance at the national stadium – Vale ran out 2 – 1 winners against Stockport County.

A defeat which must have spurred Atalanta on as, after winning the Second Leg 2-0, they went on to reach the Semi-Finals, losing to eventual winners KV Mechelen, but in the process becoming one of only two teams in the competition ’ s history to reach the penultimate round whilst playing their football outside of the national top flight league.

Three of the next four winners were European, with DePalma being the exception as an American national, though originally Italian born.

The winners of the two zones met in the Inter-Zonal Zone (" INZ ") to decide which national team would challenge the defending champion for the cup.

The emphasis of this system in Italian football spawned the rise of many top defenders such as Claudio Gentile and Gaetano Scirea in the 1970s, Giuseppe Bergomi and Franco Baresi in the 1980s, the famous all-Italian Milan defensive four of Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti of the 1990's and 2006 World Cup winners Fabio Cannavaro and Alessandro Nesta and many others in 2000s for which the Italian national team would become famous.

As Farnborough Town F. C., the team came to national prominence in 2003 when they reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, where they played the previous season's Cup winners Arsenal at Highbury.