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Every League coach can vote after each of his season games for as many as six outstanding players--three from his own team, three from his opponent--whose performances rate as All-American in the coach's judgment. The New England League tabulates these votes to determine its all-star team each year, according to Getchell...
...Munro is too honest to do this. He only mails in a name to the all-star competition if the player had a really outstanding game." Getchell added. "So Harvard players don't rack up as many votes, and don't get picked so often to the All-New England teams...
Crimson quarterback Eric Crone and Heisman Trophy candidate Ed Marinaro lead the Ivy League contingent on the final ECAC weekly all-star squad of the year...
...practically year-round affairs. Pro basketball teams alone, whose number has grown from ten to 27 in the past five years, will play nearly 1,300 games in a seemingly endless season that stretches from September well into May. After football completes its rounds of playoffs, bowl and all-star games in late January, hockey will keep skating right through the opening month of the baseball season. As last week's sport spectaculars proved, the games not only overlap; they tend to upstage one another...
None of them, except Clemente, would probably rate in a Boston all-star memory list. But in Pittsburgh, these names have become enthroned. Relief pitcher Face and reserve catcher smith, probably more distinguished as rotten singers than great players, made a record entitled "Two Bucs at the Holiday House," and seventh-grade girls throughout Western Pennsylvania begged their fathers for a chance to listen to those two crackling voices...