Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When was the last pennant playoff...
...small-college coach (Morningside in Iowa, Whittier in California), he served for eight years as an assistant to Head Coach George Halas of the Chicago Bears and was the architect of a stubborn defense that carried the Bears to the N.F.L. title in 1963; after the championship playoff, the Chicago players presented him with the game ball. Halas himself thought so much of Allen that he brought suit in an attempt to stop George from going to the Rams in 1966. It took considerable pressure from N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle to persuade Halas to drop the suit...
...championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped on grass, still smoked. In fact, the only changes worth noting were...
...Chris Gurry and Terry Flaman, juniors Bill Dierks (goalie) and captain-elect Bobby Bauer and seniors Bob Carr and Jack Garrity had a hand in what would have been a perfect season if not for the Big Red. Harvard lost to B.U. in the first round of the ECAC playoff...
...best in the East. But on a rainy day in Princeton, N.J., paced by sophomore Yank Heisler, the golfers surprised the experts, not to mention Penn State and Princeton. Captain Bo Keefe and Bruce Lo-Pucki split the year at number one and Joe Tibbits (who lost a playoff for the Greater Boston individual title to Keefe), Jack Purdy, Tom Wynne and Paul Oldfield filled out the lineup. The golfers will compete in the NCAA's next week...