Word: playoffs
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...strokers will face M.I.T., Holy Cross, and Brown on Saturday, May 10, in a playoff of the New England section of the Eastern Inter-collegiate Tournament. If the Varsity comes out on top, it will journey to the Eastern playoffs the following week; otherwise, the golfers will play in the New England Inter-collegiate tourney on the weekend...
...time, according to an old but questionable tradition, pennant races are decided. (Durocher Dodgers, better at the start than in the stretch, have been first on the Fourth five years out of eight.) They stayed on top, and lost to a better team, the Cardinals, only after a postseason playoff. To do it, Durocher used no less than four first basemen, four second basemen, eight third basemen, nine outfielders, four catchers, and an endless parade of pitchers. It was a remarkable performance, but by Durocher's own standards he was no hero in Flatbush; he lost the championship...
Tuesday eight men who have been scoring over 85 will compete, so that Barclay can enter the two winners in a playoff with 13 80-85 golfers on Wednesday and Thursday. The four or five leaders from this aggregation will become members of the team...
Softball championships have been decided in the past through a round-robin system, making use of three available fields. Hardball facilities, now limited to one field, may necessitate a straight elimination playoff. At present it appears that the usual round robin tourney will be possible only if the Freshman diamond is also available part of the time...
...Yale, here we come," was the war cry of the Bellboy quintet yesterday afternoon as it climaxed a drive to House basketball supremacy with its ninth straight win, downing Leverett in the first-place playoff to take the title...