Word: district
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Harvard's varsity nine had its finest weekend of the season Friday and Saturday, moving from eighth to third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League and finishing first in the NCAA District I standings with victories over Dartmouth, 12-9, and Yale...
Although the Crimson finished with a 9-2 record in the NCAA District standings, John J. Connelly, coach of Northeastern and head of the selection committee for the District playoffs, announced last night that a prior NCAA ruling prevents Harvard from being considered for an invitation to the playoffs. Since only one EIBL team may be entered in the NCAA competition, the league champion, either Dartmouth or Cornell, will be selected...
...NCAA ruling on league representatives to District playoffs will contradict the standings in the New England league. Along with the winner of the Yankee Conference, the University of Massachusetts, the selection committee may choose one or two independents, depending on whether the EIBL champion is in the New England district...
...Dartmouth defeats Cornell on Saturday the Indians and Boston University, teams with worse district records than Harvard and teams that the Crimson beat in regular season play, will join UMass and a fourth independent, probably Providence in the playoffs. Shold the Big Red of District II triumph, B.U. and the Redmen will play a three-game series for a playoff spot...
...passing sentence on Offner in East Cambridge District Court on Friday, Viola clearly indicated that it was the political context of Offner's act, rather than the act itself, which produced the extraordinarily harsh penalty. After the Commonwealth had recommended a sentence of six months for the assault and battery conviction, Viola gratuitously doubled the sentence for no apparent reason other than his own outrage at the act and, apparently, at the seizure of University Hall itself. Had Offner shoved a fellow student in the way that he is alleged to have shoved Watson, Viola would never have entertained...