Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland was tied with Eliot for the football championship, although a post-season playoff gave the football cup to the Deacons. This victory, combined with touch football supremacy, gave them 282 1/2 points, Eliot following 30 points behind in second place. Fall competition took place in three sports: tackle football, touch football, and cross country...
...Deacons, who won from Eliot in a playoff Tuesday after the two teams had ended the season in a tie, will rely on their crafty Michigan-style single-wing spinner formation, with its effective trio of plunging backs: Jerry Glynn, Willie Thompson, and Jacques Winter. Rounding out the backfield is quarterback Hollis French, who handles the team's passing...
Although Northeastern High had a strong team, twice reaching the championship city playoff, Madar was not singled out by the experts for any special honors. That was to come later at Michigan, which he entered in 1939. As a freshman, he played halfback. In fact it wasn't until 1942 that he switched to end, playing 50 minutes or more of every game with the famous "Seven Oak Posts", who helped wallop Don Forte's Harvard team 35-7 at Ann Arbor. "I can remember Cleo O'Donnell and Wally Flynn in that game," Madar recalls. And they undoubtedly remember...
Officially the teams ended the season in a deadlock for first place, each with a 6-1 record and 92 1/2 Straus Trophy points, but they agreed to have a playoff so that one champion team might face Yale and hold the football trophy...
Kirkland rallied to stop Winthrop, 18 to 6 yesterday afternoon on a muddy field, thus snapping the three-way tie for first place that had existed in the House football league. Meanwhile, Eliot primed for its playoff with the Deacons by blanking Dudley...