Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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District Playoffs were a continuous round-robin affair, normally with two games a day. When a team loses two games, it is eliminated. In the first game, last Monday, Connecticut beat Providence. In the second, Harvard beat B.U. behind Peters...
Then, the two losers played, and B.U. won in a 13-inning game that had to be continued until the next day because of darkness. Dorwart whipped Connecticut 3-0, with a 4-hitter, and the Crimson was left as the only undefeated squad...
...next day, Connecticut knocked off the Terriers to keep alive and win the right to meet Harvard in the showdown. The Crimson scored two runs early, but Connecticut tied the game with a two-run homer. Then, in the seventh, Jeff Grate, Dick Manchester, and Jeff Turco all singled. Grate scored, and Harvard was on its way to Omaha...
...last game of the season, Army lost in an upset to give the Crimson sole possesion of first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League after a tie for fourth the year before. The squad did not have an especially great year, but three of its four losses came in nonleague games with Boston schools...
...National League decided to go international; it expanded to twelve teams - by adding new franchises in Montreal and San Diego - while retaining its traditional monolithic league structure and 1 62-game schedule. The American League, on the other hand, decided to go intramural. It split into two six-team divisions, with each team scheduled to play 156 games (90 games against its own division, 66 against the other) and the divisional champions left to battle for the pennant in a best-of-five play-off before the World Series...