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Coach Edo Marion's sabre team, expected to provide Harvard's greatest strength in the championships, managed only a seventh-place tie with Army. Captain Ron Winfield made a strong bid to capture a qualifying spot for the individual championships, but lost in a play-off to swordsmen from N.Y.U. and Princeton. His third-place tie in his pool, though, was the best Harvard performance of the weekend...
...Angeles Open last month was a milestone. Short, stubby Charlie Sifford, jumping off to a first-round lead with five birdies and an eagle in one six-hole spree, won the season's opening tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off against, ironically, South Africa's Harold Henning. Thus Sifford, long the victim of the apartheid in pro golf, picked up $20,000 and became, however briefly, the first Negro to lead the money winners on the pro tour...
...N.F.L PLAY-OFF BOWL (CBS, 1 p.m. to conclusion). Runners-up in the Eastern and Western Conferences meet in Miami's Orange Bowl Stadium...
...That first year under Allen, the Rams won eight games and lost six. Last year, they scored the most points (398) in the N.F.L., allowed the fewest (196), and posted a record of eleven victories, one defeat and two ties before finally losing the Western Conference title in a play-off with Lombardi's Packers. So far this year, the Rams have won seven games, lost only one, and they are the choice of many experts to represent the N.F.L. in this year's Super Bowl...
...scene is the Los Angeles Coliseum, packed with roaring, screaming fans watching a National Football League championship play-off game. The star is Jim Brown, once the most celebrated fullback in professional football. But is Brown bucking the line? Nope. This time he's lining up the buck. Aided by a gang of professional goons-Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Gates, Donald Sutherland-Brown is robbing the Coliseum...