Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, who tied Army for the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title last year, brought a league-leading five-and-one record with them into Cambridge last night. In the Eastern loop Princeton defeated Penn, lost to a none-too-strong Columbia squad, and then toppled Navy, Army, Cornell, and Dartmouth in succession...
...Widening Loop. The news was the first shot in a revolution for small U.S. newspapers. A.P. has plans to extend its seven-paper system to the majority of afternoon dailies in North and South Carolina and into Virginia and Tennessee. The rival United Press has run successful tests on a circuit from Atlanta, which will feed nine North Carolina papers beginning this week. Another 25-paper U.P. network will open in Oklahoma next July. And Hearst's International News Service is rigging lines for an 18-paper loop in Ohio, to be ready by early summer...
...Harvard coach even went so far as to suggest that a second loop be formed of the poor relations, with a possible playoff game between the weaker and stronger leagues...
Three teams from each present ice loop seem to be naturals for the new strong league. Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, B.C., B.U., and Northeastern all play each other twice a season at present. Yale now plays each of these six at least once. And in an informal ballot at the luncheon for the eastern representative at the Denver N.C.A.A. championships, the only other schools to receive any mention were Middlebury and Clarkson. It was proposed that out of this group a good eight or nine team circuit could be formed...
...yesterday that the suggestion had anything to do with the recent minor squabble over the selection of teams for the Denver playoffs. Last year B.C. and B.U. were sent, with no representative from the Pentagonal League. This season it seemed to be tacitly agreed that one team from each loop would be chosen, bringing a storm of rebellion from those who wanted to send the Terriers and Eagles again, if these should prove the two strongest sextets...