Before that Trent Dilfer took the Baltimore Ravens to the championship.

But at midseason, Bradshaw regained the starting spot and took the team to the championship.

Cantillo was part of the ASL's most exciting team as the Americans played a free flowing attacking game which took them to the 1977 championship.

While attending Newmarket High School, he took the school's boys hockey team to the championship, winning it in 2000.

A victory would take the Mariners to the national championship in Racine, Wis., on Nov. 22.

Brown has coached two college teams, U.C.L.A. and Kansas, taking the Jayhawks to the national championship in 1988.

The Wimbledon champion said he was "a different player" from the teen-ager whose elastic arm spun out the hundred aces that took him to the 1990 championship here.

In 1982, Italy played poorly in the first round, but along came Paolo Rossi to take Italy to the championship.

In what was supposed to be Kelly's senior year, Ken Dorsey took the Hurricanes to the national championship.

"Rather than dedicating myself as a fighter," Rosario said recently, "I abandoned what took me to the championship: the desire and dedication."