Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollis, the winner of the first half play-off, has already lost twice and seems unlikely to top the second half, as Apley did last year. As a result, a playoff will probably develop between Hollis and the winner of the second half playoff for the overall basketball championship...
...League standings last year Cornell and Princeton both had 11 and 3 records, but Cornell took the title by beating Princeton in a playoff game. Penn was third, followed by Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, and Harvard. An Ivy League coaches' poll picked the weak Crimson team to finish last again this year...
Attendance figures are high. Record gate so far this year: 93,500, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the Rams tied the Forty-Niners, 24-24. Even less interesting games usually outdraw college football. Despite its brief season, which ends with an interdivision playoff in December, pro football is one of America's top-ranking spectator sports. The rough excitement of big men throwing their weight around with skillful violence more than matches amateur Saturday afternoons larded with college spirit. Players and fans have another advantage over the old college crowd: there is only one inter-conference playoff...
Around Detroit, at any rate, there is little doubt about who the 1954 champions will be. Layne and the Lions have won the title two years running; for their loyal fans, this season's playoff is a mere formality...
Both Kirkland and Leverett play their final games tomorrow against Winthrop and Lowell. If both win, a playoff may be necessary to determine who will face Yale on Nov. 19. In soccer play Dunster tripped Dudley...