Word: eight-point
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...either effecting or obstructing sports de-emphasis. In the case of the Ivy League presidents, most of whom are more concerned with education than with winning teams--either athletic or political--chances are good that they will actually keep their institutions headed on the path of amateurism. The eight-point program they have set forth is a good one. It iterates some policies that most of the league is already following, but other items, like the abolition of football clinics and of spring practice, are also salutary. The last-named, which has evoked the most controversy, is probably more important...
...Philadelphia, an eight-point buck wandered out of Fairmount Park into a bakery's loading yard. When four men tried to lasso it, the buck headed for an eight-foot fence, cleared it on the third try. With 16 police cars in hot pursuit, it darted 15 blocks to the Erie Avenue station of the Broad Street subway and slid down the stairs. Patrolman Thomas Gleason stopped it with a revolver shot as it was heading toward a turnstile for a northbound train...
Meanwhile, a basketball coaches committee meeting in Minneopalis drew up an eight-point recommendation aimed at purifying their blackened sport, suggesting that a Federal law punish bribe offerers...
Chief reason behind the decision is an effort to improve College basketball teams. The home team is generally considered to held an eight-point advantage and, Bingham pointed out, there is no reason why Harvard should not capitalize on this...
Leede, who put in 12 field goals and 10 fouls, and varsity center Bill Prior, with a total of 23 points, took turns tilling the lead back and forth. Dartmouth had an eight-point bulge in the second period, Harvard a similar margin in the third. But Leede won out in the end. He sent the game into overtime at 59-59 with 50 seconds left on two lazy free throws, and then administered the coup de grace with two field goals and three more fouls...