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Word: playoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things seemed rosey in the first game as Harvard's faint playoff hopes were brightened by the presence of pitching ace Larry Brown. With "Brownie" retiring the Bruin batters in 1-2-3 fashion for the better part of the game (he faced only fifteen batters in a five inning stretch), Harvard overcame an early two-run Brown edge to lead, 4-2, going into the final inning...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Bruins Foil Brownie, 7-4, As Batsmen Split Twinbill | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...result was inevitable. The Boston Bruins have not won a playoff contest in the Montreal Forum in a long time, and the Canadiens continued their winning habit with a tightly contested 4-2 victory last night in the first game of the NHL semifinals...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Habs Rally to Beat Bruins, 4-2 | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...which establishes the rankings--considers the Crimson's record along with the fact that Brown (whom Harvard victimized in OT a week ago) dumped UMass last week, the Crimson should come up with the top spot in this week's New England poll. All of which means that the playoff question will probably be settled when the Crimson and the Minutemen square off here in Cambridge...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Quickstick Elis, 13-9; Crimson Raises Record to 7-2 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...history and lit now. As Guy "The Flower" Shakespeare once said, "the playoff's the thing...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Montreal, Islanders Favorites for Cup | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...manager says. He squints once, hard, and the memory rolls in again: Dent, the ninth man in the New York Yankee lineup lofting a fly ball over the towering left field wall in Fenway, crushing Boston's pennant hopes in a one-game, winner-take-all playoff. "I'm watching TV, and I see Bucky Dent. I'm lying in bed trying to go to sleep, and I see Bucky Dent. I wake up in the middle of the night, and I see Bucky Dent." Another squint, a squirt of tobacco juice and Zimmer returns to spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Once Again into the Breach | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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