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Chicago never got quite so heated up over ice hockey as it did last week when its Black Hawk pros whipped the Montreal Canadiens 3-0, putting themselves in the final play-off for the Stanley Cup for the first time since...
Excitement ran just as high in Detroit after its Red Wings had beaten the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team that had led the league through much of the 70-game schedule. For the first time since 1950, the play-off for the big silver cup donated by Canada's Governor General Lord Stanley back in 1893 is an all *American-affair. Even as they wait for next year, Canadian fans realize that power is now so equally divided between the National Hockey League's top four teams that for the next few seasons the cup play-offs should...
...Schroeder gained the only first for the Crimson representatives by taking the 200-yard freestyle. Mike Mayers of Quincy was third. Quincy finished its intramural season with a 7-1 record--tied with Leverett--and then defeated the Leverett team in a special play-off Thursday for the right to meet Yale's college champion...
...victory advances the Crimson into the final round of the Beanpot Tournament, where the varsity will meet Boston College. B.C. deefated Northeastern 14 to 1 in yesterday's other first round game. The play-off will be Monday night at the Boston Garden. Harvard's next game is tomorrow at Brown...
...rugged Green Bay Packers knew they would have to foil the two grand old men of the gallant Philadelphia Eagles: Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 34, and Center-Linebacker Chuck Bednarik, 35, both talking about retiring after that day's championship play-off of the National Football League. But in the second period Van Brocklin coolly passed to Halfback Tommy McDonald for a 35-yd. touchdown. Then a crunching tackle by Bednarik put Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving...