Upsala Studenters IF

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Upsala Studenters IF is a Swedish sport club from Uppsala founded in 1908. They club has had sections in basketball, table tennis, athletics, fencing, handball, volleyball, bandy and tennis [1] The handball team was promoted to Allsvenskan in 1937. [2] They won the Swedish championship, decided by a straight knockout tournament, in 1939. [3] After that season, they withdrew from Allsvenskan and never returned. [2] They did, however, play in the last edition of the Swedish championship tournament in 1952 (after that the Swedish champions title was awarded to the league winners). [3] In 2012, the handball team merged with HK71 and formed Uppsala HK. [4]

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