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Hoping to win the championships for the third consecutive year, the varsity "C" squash team beat the Union Boat Club in the second tilt in a two match playoff. The Crimson squash men are now well on their way to the championships with a 5 to 0 lead...
...Cleveland Browns led the Los Angeles Rams, 10-7. A year ago, when the two teams played for the National Football League championship, it was Groza's unerring toe which won the game, 30-28, in the last 30 seconds of play. In this week's playoff game at Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, football history seemed to be repeating itself...
...Rams, championship playoff victims two years running, started rewriting the script in the second half. Against a team that had never lost a championship game-the Browns won four straight titles in the defunct All-America Conference-the hard-charging Ram line kept Cleveland's famed quarterback, Otto Graham, constantly bottled up. At the end of the third quarter the Rams were tied, 17 all, with the mighty Browns. The payoff play: a 72-yd. scoring pass from Ram Substitute Quarterback Norman Van Brocklin to End Tom Fears. The new champions: the Rams, by a score...
...seldom got the fever so acutely or fallen so wildly in love with one team. The Giants' astounding last-second playoff victory over Brooklyn threatened to make the World Series itself an anticlimax. But it also captured the nation's imagination, and when the Giants' Monte Irvin stole home in the first inning of the first game (see SPORT), the Series was suddenly exciting...
Slowly, then faster & faster as the Dodgers faltered, the Giants closed the gap, winning 37 of their last 44 games, tied the Dodgers at season's end and forced a playoff. During that frantic final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing a thing. It's my players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed...