Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There have been other dead heats, of course. The Cardinals whipped the (then) Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and Cleveland dispatched Boston in a one-game A.L. playoff in 1948. But the only climax that seems likely to match this year's in sheer excitement was the 1951 thriller, when the (then) New York Giants beat the (then) Brooks, two games out of three. As you can see, the Dodgers can't seem to stay out of these post-season affairs. They've been in all three N.L. showdowns...
Keeping a 20-game over-all winning streak which has lasted since November, Stoughton walked away with the American League title in Freshman intramural basketball on March 14. Stoughton then went on to edge out Hurlbut, the National League champion, by a score of 43 to 38 in the playoff game...
...Humphrey, who plays second to no man in devotion to the public will, made the best of it. If he decides at midsummer to go all out for the big job, announced Humphrey, he will welcome primary contests, especially the ones in Oregon and Wisconsin. Prospect: a real Wisconsin playoff next April between Humphrey and Kennedy...
Should no two teams emerge head and shoulders above the rest during the last weeks of competition, a playoff for Eastern honors is likely. Such a playoff was approved last March by the NCAA Coaches Convention. Although the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee has not taken any steps to formalize such a playoff for the coming season, it approved the coaches' recommendation, and has not taken any steps prohibiting a playoff...
...Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...