Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football situation is not too clear. Kirkland and Leverett are tied for first place, with six wins and one loss. Eliot, in third place with five wins, a loss, and a tie, is pressing hard on the leaders' heels. Floyd Wilson, Director of Intramural Athletics, anticipates a playoff for the right to play the Yale champion...
...Trophy for the New England Sloop Championship tomorrow and Sunday against the hosting Coast Guard Academy, B.U., Holy Cross, M.I.T., Tufts, and Williams. Of Ford's three crewmen, Pete Drake, Rock Pring, and Mike Horn, the latter two were with him when he sailed away from B.U. in a playoff match last fall...
...representatives of the West will be decided this weekend in the annual four-team playoff tournament. Denver finished first in the Western hockey League, followed by Minnesota--which won its last six games to take second place from Michigan...
...shot struck a five-year-old girl in the gallery, Golfer Arnold Palmer blew a two-stroke lead in the final round of the Phoenix Open, needed a difficult 8-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to tie fast-closing Doug Sanders. In next day's playoff, Palmer shot a 67, beat Sanders by three strokes for the $4,300 first prize. It was Palmer's second win in six 1961 tournaments-a pace putting him ahead of his remarkable 1960 performance...
This year, Committee members and the Director of Athletics admit "the situation has improved" in reference to Western recruiting. Playoff eliminations, given by one Athletic Department official as the real reason behind Harvard's withdrawal, have been abolished. Why has no decision come yet from the Committee on the advisability of entering the 1961 tourney...