Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Division I squads still have a realistic chance of obtaining one of the eight playoff berths. Consequently, within the next eight days, no less than nine matches are scheduled that will have a definite bearing on the final seedings. Of them, the most important is the Cornell-Boston University showdown for the top position at Boston next Wednesday...
Although Princeton cannot hope for a playoff spot (their best possible final record would be 9-15), they could be a dangerous spoiler. Cornell must play at Baker Rink on Saturday, and a Tiger victory would assure Harvard of a share of the Ivy title, provided the Crimson wins the remainder of its games...
...billed as a Stanley Cup playoff match between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the evening progressed, it looked more like the Ringling Bros. Circus. Late in the last period at Madison Square Garden, New York's Vic Hadfield began trading punches with Toronto's Jim Harrison. Maple Leaf Goalie Bernie Parent skated to Harrison's assistance and was intercepted by Ranger Goalie Ed Giacomin. During the four-way fray, Parent's $150 custom-made mask was snatched off the ice and thrown into the stands. Enraged when fans refused to return...
...many, the season kicks off inordinately early-in the heat of July when the top team in the National Football League plays the College All-Stars. After that, for the next six months, the pros play 78 exhibition games followed by 182 regular-season games, followed by six playoff games, followed by the game: the Super Bowl...
FLORIDA was packed with seasonal celebrities last week-everyone from President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Jimmy Hoffa and Moms Mabley. Hotel rooms in Miami were solidly booked with fans who had come to watch the Orange Bowl game as well as the playoff between the Miami Dolphins and the Baltimore Colts. The Sunny Palm Lodge, a nudist colony, reported a 25% increase in business over last year. Amid all the hoopla, the big political event of the week was the arrival in Miami of New York's newly Democratic Mayor John Lindsay, who announced that...