Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showdown of the Ivy race tonight, league leading Princeton plays at Penn. A win for the Tigers will give them their second straight championship. The Quakers, however, may pull a surprise, which would create a three-way tie for the title and necessitate a playoff among Penn, Princeton, and Yale...
Train called for "set three," a three-out-of-five playoff for the match. He was going all out now, but it was too late: Francis had the hot hand. Two of Train's shots hit the tin, a serve died in the corner, and John Francis had done the impossible once again...
...tournament in seven years; the closest he had come was second in the 1961 P.G.A. Seniors. Jimmy did not win at Palm Springs either-but he stubbornly clung to the lead until Tommy Jacobs beat him with a 9-in. putt in a sudden-death playoff. Jacobs is muscular, nervous and 28. Said Demaret: "I'm awfully glad that Tommy could win it. After all, he's almost through, and I've still got years...
Just One Slip-Up. Last week the Bears came up against the Eastern champion New York Giants in the N.F.L. playoff. And-crunch-defense won again. Onto Chicago's Wrigley Field pranced the high-scoring (32 points per game) Giants, with wonderful Y. A. Tittle and his acrobatic receivers-Del Shofner, Frank Gifford, Aaron Thomas. There stood the glowering Bears, aching to cuff them around. At 7:22 of the first quarter, Tittle lofted his 37th touchdown pass of the year-a soft, 14-yd. beauty to Gifford. It was the only mistake the Bears made...
Next week, the show goes on the road when the Giants meet the Western Conference's Chicago Bears in the National Football League playoff. The Giants rank No. 1 in total offense (359 yds. per game) and scoring (32 points per game). Chicago, which beat Detroit for the Western title in the final game, leads in defense, has allowed 14 opponents only 227 yds. and 10 points per game. The early-line odds makers make it Giants 11-10, or just about even. The only grumble is that Chicago's Wrigley Field holds an audience of only...