Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett soccer team defeated Eliot 2 to 0 yesterday in the championship playoff, and earned the right to meet Yale's Berkeley College in the inter-college game tomorrow afternoon...
Besides the Winthrop-Calhoun title game, soccer and touch football championships will be contested between the Houses and Colleges. Leverett, winner of the soccer playoff with Eliot yesterday, will play Berkeley...
...champion, Walker Cup player and low amateur in this year's Masters and National Open, gave even himself a rude shock by barely squeaking through his first match. Easily a favorite in the pre-tournament selections, Ward had to sink a 25-ft. putt on a 19-hole playoff to beat Michigan's Ray Palmer and stay in the running...
...through the third game of the memorable 1951 pennant playoff with the Giants, Campy kept ducking into the dugout toilet to pray for victory. When Bobby Thomson connected for his unbelievable, game-winning home run for the New York Giants, Campy swore at the soaring ball: "Sink, you devil, sink!" He kept muttering until the ball disappeared...
...Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into his own bed for the first night's sleep since beating the great Ben Hogan in the Open's playoff...