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Pago 13
Dynasties aren chopped liver
One of the favorite pasttimes of SDortswritpr nnH
broadcasters is naming AU-Time All-Star teams, or
trying to pick the greatest player ever, or best team
ever.
I've decided to take this one step further. What
about the great Dynasties in sports? Every sport has
them . . . those teams that ruthlessly rule the roost
for years at a time, earning both hatred and admira
tion at the same time. I decided to list the five great
est aynasiica m spons.
of five and three consecutive titles and a couple
back-to-back title seasons in that time. Nobody in
NHL history has come close. So, Vive les Canadiens,
or whatever they say in Montreal. The Canadiens
are the best in the NHL
3. BOSTON CELTICS, 1957-1969. Red Auerbach's
victory cigar. The Garden. The parquet floor. Hein
sohn, Russell, Cousy, Havlicek, Jones . . . and all
those championship banners!
iwelve times in that 13-vcar span the Celtics
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The 1 JZ-year stranglehold the United States hart Dlaved in tho nt c.h
on the America's Cup is simply amazing. When Aus- 1 1 . The great moments, the great battles between
tralia won last September off Rhode Island Sound, it Russell and Chamberlain, and always that intangi-
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spots during the dynasty, and really, is still alive
today. I think it's an interesting note that nobody
has won back-to-back NBA titles since the Celts did
it in 1968-69. It's unlikely that any team will ever
approach the eight straight league titles Boston won
between 1959 and 1966.
2. NEW YORK YANKEES, 1949-1964. There's a
book out about the Yankees in this era. It's called
"Dynasty." uff said, really.
The Yankees of the 1920s coached by Miller Hug
gins and the 1930s coached by Joe McCarthy were
great. But even these teams pale in comparison to
those 16 seasons between 1949 and 1964. Casey
Stengel guided the Bronx Bombers to five consecu
tive World Series crowns in his first five seasons. It
took a major-league record 111 wins by Cleveland in
1954 to halt the string. Stengel answered the chal
lenge with four more pennants.
So spoiled by success were the Yankees that Sten
gel and General Manager George Weiss were fired
after Pittsburgh beat New York in the 1960 Series.
Ralph Houk took over as manager, winning two
world titles and a third pennant in three years.
Finally, Yogi Berra, in his only year as Yankee
skipper, won yet another American League Pennant
in 1964.
The record reads 16 years, 14 pennants. Nine
World Championships. Ten MVP awards. Four
Rookie-of-the-Year honors. Roger Maris belted 61 .
homers and Mickey Mantle 54 in 1961. Don Larsen
pitched the only perfect game in World Series his
tory for the Yanks in 1956.
1. UCLABRUINS, 1964-1975. The Cowboys, Cana
diens, Celtics and Yankees are clearly a cut above
the field. But they can't touch the Bruins of Coach
John Wooden in their glory years. In those 12 years,
UCLA won the NCAA basketball title 10 times,
including seven in a row. The Bruins won an incred
ible 88 games in a row during three seasons in the
early 1970s.
The Bruins began their dynasty by taking the title
in 1964 and 1965. Texas Western, now Texas-El
Paso, won the crown in 1966, but then Wooden
ended the longest winning streak in sporting his
tory. However, I know nothing about yachting.
Then there's the Nebraska gymnastics team. Five
straight NCAA titles isn't chopped liver, to be sure.
But, and I'll be honest, I'd never heard of college
gymnastics until Francis Allen started building his
powerhouse in the late 1970s. Because of that
limited knowledge of the sport, I'm leaving them oil
my list.
The U.S. Olympic basketball team's seven consec
utive gold medals from 1936 to 1968 merited con
sideration. When the U.S.S.R. beat the Americans in
Munich in 1972, it marked the first loss in Olympic
history for U.S. basketball teams.
The Notre Dame football teams of the 1920s,
1940s, and early 1950s were a true dynasty. Coached
by Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, the Irish estab
lished themselves as the terrors of college football.
Another dynasty that merited consideration was
Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma Sooners teams of 1946
63. The Sooners compiled a 145-29-4 mark with
Wilkinson and won national titles in 1950, 1955 and
1956. Oklahoma won 14 conference titles in Wilkin
son's 17 years, posting a 75-game unbeaten string in
conference play from 1947 to 1959.
But these, great as they were, couldn't crack the
Kopetzky Top Five. Listed in reverse order, they are:
5. DALLAS COWBOYS, 1966-1983. Yeah, I know,
America's Team. The Team Everyone Loves to See
Lose. But like it or not, Tom Landry's Cowboys are
professional football's greatest dynasty. They have
been winners for a much longer period of time than
Green Bay, OaklandLos Angeles, Chicago, or the
New York Giants. Dallas played their first playoff
game in 1966 and have missed but one year since.
They've made four Super Bowl appearances, win
ning two. They've played in 11 NFC championship
games. The day will come when Tom Landry won't brought in Lew Alcindor, and 'for the next seven
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one fact is clear: While other NFL teams have come
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4. MONTREAL CANADIENS, 1956-1978. In those
23 NHL seasons, the Canadiens won Lord Stanley's
Cup an amazing 14 times. They put together streaks
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