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...second round, Eliot House, which won the Harvard Championship last fall and then went on to whip Davenport College 26 to 0 in the play-off, will take on Jonathan Edwards. Dunster will meet Berkeley; Winthrop, Davenport; and Quincy House, which finished fourth in Cambridge this year after knocking Leverett out of the title race with a 6-0 victory in the season's final game, will take on Branford College...
Touch football teams from Dunster, Kirkland, and Winthrop ended the season in a tie, but a meeting of the athletic secretaries selected Dunster to face the Yale winner. Trumbull. In the freshman play-off, Holworthy will be paired against the Eli's South Middle...
...richly illustrated new book called Architecture Today and Tomorrow (McGraw-Hill; $17.50) takes off from that boast to trace the rise of modern architecture-and the lively rebellion against it among the modernists themselves. A reader will have to look far to find in a single volume a better play-off between the older and younger generations...
...shaft of his putter at the ball. A long 60 ft. stretched between him and the cup, and Dallas Pro Don January, 31, would take the P.G.A. first money if Barber missed. Barber didn't miss. He sank his putt and a tie was his. In the play-off next day, holing long putts with fresh assurance. Jerry Barber finished one stroke ahead of January to become, at 45, the oldest and smallest golfer ever to win the P.G.A. tournament...
...Flukes. Under the N.H.L.'s peculiar play-off rules, designed to boost team treasuries, the first-and third-place teams fight it out for a place in the playoffs. The second-and fourth-place teams skate through the same routine. Thus, while the third-place Black Hawks disgraced the first-place Canadiens by beating them four games out of six, including unprecedented back-to-back 3-0 shutouts, the lowly, fourth-place Red Wings swept four straight (after dropping the opener) from the Maple Leafs. But the pair of upsets were no flukes...