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...Denver--last year's NCAA champion--leads the pack with an impressive 13-1 record as of last week. There is no question that Denver will play in the tourney again this year, despite the fact that the Western teams, unlike the Eastern, will meet in a four-college playoff before the tournament...
...fell from a second place tie with B.C. to third place. RPI continued to hold down first place. The conclusion in the minds of most hockey fans is that RPI and B.C. will be chosen to represent the East. (This year, for the first time, there will be no playoff tournament between the top four teams in the East...
Some surprise over the report has been expressed by those who remember the Harvard stand last year during the NCAA playoff selections. The Faculty Committee on Athletics prohibited the team from playing in the playoffs (and is expected to repeat its decision if the situation arises this season) because it thought that Western representatives, like Michigan Tech and the University of Denver, were recruiting Canadian players who were not up to the admissions standards of the College...
...National Football League Playoff Bowl (CBS, starts at 2 p.m.). In the leakiest bowl of all, the second-place clubs of the eastern and western divisions - the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions - grunt it out in Miami...
...upset in Perth astounded the tennis world. No Italian team had ever before made the Davis Cup playoff, and not since 1936 had the Americans been shut out. Resigned to defeat, the Italians had even reserved seats on a plane flight leaving for home right after their matches with the U.S. The very first day of play nearly put the Italians on the plane: the U.S.'s belligerent Butch Buchholz, 20, beat Sirola 6-8, 7-5, 11-9, 6-2, and brooding Barry MacKay, 25, defeated Pietrangeli, 8-6, 3-6, 8-10, 8-6, 13-11. Muffling...