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...Green running back Sean Maher carried the ball just seven times but trundled for 71 yards, including first-half touchdown runs of 18 and 22 yards. Rich Lena accumulated 65 yards on 14 carries to support Maher on the ground...
...strike. The division leaders at that time- the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers- were declared winners of the first season, and will meet the winners of the second season in three-out-of-five game playoffs starting Oct. 6. If the same club captures both races, it will play the team with the best record for the full year, excluding the first-half leader. Playoffs for the league pennants will be pushed back a week, with the chilly promise that the World Series will begin on Oct. 20 and wind...
...playoffs because it did not win either half. Some baseball people also fear that teams already guaranteed berths in the playoffs will not play their best in the "second" season. As Shortstop Larry Bowa of the Phillies put it, "What's the incentive?" More disturbing, a first-half winning team could try to dictate its opponent in the playoffs. If the Yankees, say, preferred to play Milwaukee, they could conceivably ease up on the Brewers in the regular season. Though no American League owners voted against the plan, the National League, which requires a three-fourths approval...
...that juncture, the Crimson had stayed alive mainly with the impressive outside shooting of Tom Mannix, probably the finest pure shooter in the Ivies, who turned in 5-7, 14 point, first-half performance...
...while Rogers and his Gamecocks went on to suffer a sound trouncing at the claws of the Pitt Panthers in the Gator Bowl, Buckley rebounded to toss a 65-yd. first-half touchdown pass and lead the Blue squad to a 24-23 victory in the Blue-Gray Classic...