Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming season: 1) there are only seven clubs in the National Hockey League (the Montreal Maroons folded); 2) there are no longer two divisions in the league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs-a complicated round robin in which six of the seven teams will compete...
...over pre-season prognostications last week. Favorites: the bruising Boston Bruins (with practically the same squad as last year); the French-speaking Montreal Canadiens (fortified by six of last year's Maroons) ; the lucky Chicago Blackhawks, who finished sixth in the eight-team league last year (converted into championship calibre by the purchase of a complete ready-made forward line from the Maroons) ; and the up-&-coming New York Rangers (whose farm-bred kid team beat the reputable Americans six times in a row during pre-season exhibition games last month...
Undefeated, the Harvard soccermen will find the Army match no breather on the read to sweeping the circuit championship with a victory over Yale. The Army boys have rolled up a formidable record by crushing Lehigh, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Colgate, and are set for some determined scoring thrusts against the Crimson...
...football, they will, as champion Law team, meet the crack Business School aggregation next week. At the same time, the winners of the inter-House touch crown will meet the top School of Education squad soon, and the winners of the two games are to play for the mythical championship of Harvard University...
...grid teams a few days early this year when the Puritans and Deacons set a new all-time record of twelve fumbles in a playoff for the House title yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field which ended in a O-O tic. Although both outfits still remain deadlocked for the championship, each having won five, lost one, and tied two, Kirkland was awarded the right of meeting the Yale champions on the basis of first downs scored. The Deacons counted six to Winthrop's four, although outgained 118 yards...