Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as they did 22 years ago when freezing weather slicked the field for the championship playoff with the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants traded their cleated football shoes for rubber-soled sneakers. And just as they did in 1934, the Giants ran off with the National Football League title. The bruising New York defense kept the Bears at bay; on offense just about every Giant was a star. Scoring on runs, passes, field goals and a blocked kick, the Giants...
George Kraft '58 presided as general chairman of the tournament. Judges for the playoff debate for second place were Professor F.C. Packard, Jr. and Ensign Thomas B. Bardos...
...ball) and pushed his way to second. Standing on the bag, he called to the head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly called Merkle out, ruled the game a tie. The Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs went on to win the playoff and the pennant-and took the World Series from Hughie Jennings' Detroit Tigers (Ty Cobb & Co.) four games...
...Matthews North basketball team ended its season undefeated as it drove to a solid 46-29 victory over Mower in the Freshman Interleague basketball playoff at the I.A.B. last night. George James, the Matthews right guard, was high individual scorer with 19 points...
Although a Penn victory would boost the Quakers into a first place tie with the Crimson, there would be no playoff. Coaches J. Bruce Munro of the Crimson and Charles Scott of Pennsylvania both said yesterday that they favored a playoff, but added that they understood that the Ivy Presidents' Agreement forbade such a game...