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Attendance figures are high. Record gate so far this year: 93,500, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the Rams tied the Forty-Niners, 24-24. Even less interesting games usually outdraw college football. Despite its brief season, which ends with an interdivision playoff in December, pro football is one of America's top-ranking spectator sports. The rough excitement of big men throwing their weight around with skillful violence more than matches amateur Saturday afternoons larded with college spirit. Players and fans have another advantage over the old college crowd: there is only one inter-conference playoff...
Both Kirkland and Leverett play their final games tomorrow against Winthrop and Lowell. If both win, a playoff may be necessary to determine who will face Yale on Nov. 19. In soccer play Dunster tripped Dudley...
...winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves faltered, stood a formidable 4½ games off the pace. But the Giants were ready. By spoonfeeding his puny pitching staff, Manager...
...Prewar clubs drew small crowds, were no match for the hopped-up enthusiasm of intercollegiate competition. Then the pros began to import popular American stars, and as the quality of pro football picked up, so did the size of the rooting sections. November's Grey Cup. classic-the playoff for the professional championship-began to pack Toronto's Varsity Stadium (capacity...
...into one of the best in the league. It was perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees, the Giants comforted themselves with thoughts of next year...