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This season's new Ivy League structure split the Ancient Eight into a Red Rolfe (northern) and a Lou Gehrig (southern) Division, so Harvard plays each squad in the northern division four times while it plays the southern teams only twice...
...Weekend Games: Harvard has completed its play against the Lou Gehrig (southern) division and now must face Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth four times each the rest of the way. The Bulldogs (15-3, 6-0 Ivy) lead the Red Rolfe (northern) division by two games over Harvard and Dartmouth (9-6, 4-2 Ivy) and 4.5 games over Brown...
Ergo, the Ivy League has been reborn. This year, the League has been split into two divisions: the northern schools in the "Red Rolfe" division, the southern schools in the "Lou Gehrig" division...
...Rolfe Division will contain Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, while the Gehrig Division will include Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, and Pennsylvania. The division winner will play a best-of-three playoff for the Ivy title...
...course, since this is a fable, he turns out to be a marvel, a natural, who hits .444 that first season. A couple of years later, as Barr leads the New York Mets to a championship, sportswriters tell themselves that he isn't a better ballplayer than Gehrig, or Mays, or Williams. He couldn't be, could he? Better than DiMaggio? But his teammates know he is. They just don't know why. More than most athletic wonders, baseball skill is hidden, supernatural; just flick your wrists and it's a triple to left...