Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mower Hall won the freshman touch football championship last year by topping Matthews South, champion of the National League, 20 to 13 in a playoff game. Mower was the American League champion and was undefeated and untied...
...Rochester (N.Y.) Country Club, Betsy Rawls tied the women's-course record with a 71 to beat, Mrs. Jackie Pung, who carded a 77, in an 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open golf championship...
Basketball was a strong Dunster sport; the "B" team lost only one game, while the "A" team finished second after a playoff. The "A" team was led by Brophy, Oakley, Marv Arthurs, Whitney, Peyton, and Dewan, while Van Wye, Spencer, Walser, Bill Aaron, Hal Collard, and Bud Ingoldsby played for the "B" team. The hockey team, led by Cook, Bill Looney, Hank Feldman, Boies, Pete Frye, Mike Halberstam, Wehtje, and Pat Conmy, made a strong post-vacation finish...
Jack Brophy, playing number three Bruin golfer Norm Anderson, lost out in the 20th hole of a sudden-death playoff match. Bruce Thurmond, second on the local ladder, edged Art Bell to win 1-0. Captain Dave Hedberg outstroked Bob DiSato, 4-3, which Crimson golfer Peto Malkin defeated Floyd Well...
...Cincinnati, after Washington's American League opening game was rained out, the newly named "Redlegs" lost to the newly resettled (from Boston to Milwaukee) Braves, 2-0, as the 1953 baseball season officially got under way. ¶ln Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie...