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When Laundryman Marshall decided to invest some of his profits in a professional football team (Boston Redskins) six years ago, he brought many innovations into the twelve-year-old National Football League. It was his idea to divide the league into two divisions, have a post-season play-off for the championship. He introduced red satin trousers for his players, entertainment at intermission. But Bostonians were apathetic to Showman Marshall's ideas. After dropping $85,000 there, he transplanted his Redskins in Washington last year...
Harvard broke a ten year Yale monopoly on the Northern Division championship this season, winning all of their matches. Last week-end they lost to Princeton, holder of the Southern Division title, 5-4 in a play...
With a 7 to 5 victory in the final play-off, the Matthews ten took the freshman Softball Championship yesterday. Although the Thayer Softles took an early 5 to 1 lead, Jim Monkman pulled the Champs even in the fifth frame. Bob McLaughlin came home on a fly by Dick Sprague to score the winning run. While Bryan Smith rounded the bases just to cinch the Matthews victory...
...play-off meet with Princeton will be over 36 holes with individual and twosome low-ball matches. Because of their repeated success in teaming well together, Tony MacGowan and Ed Peterson will probably be the first pair; Little Jack Barr and Bob Sides, the second two-some; and Bill Cordingley and Bob Graves the third...
...team match consists of five singles. The dormitories have been grouped into two leagues with Straus, Matthews, and Wigglesworth in one, and Thayer, Weld Hollis, and Grays in the other. There will be a championship play-off between the winners of the two leagues on Tuesday...