Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collapse and increasingly poor play is diminishing fan interest. Baseball is sounder for a variety of reasons. It demands more skill than physical force, the season is much longer, the players have the strongest collective bargaining agreement in sports, the teams mercifully have avoided all but the barest of playoff series, and the sport somehow does not lend itself to betting...
...Harvard overlook Yale in the final days of the season to take a playoff spot away from the Ells Last year, the two rivals played before 6000 in the Now Haven Collectors, where the Else look a stunning 5-0 win. But two weeks later, Harvard got its revenge before the biggest crowd over to see a game in Bright Hockey Courier, smothering the Ells, 3-0, on the way to an Ivy crown and an Eastern title...
Although the game does not affect the Crimson's chances for a New England playoff berth, or its already guaranteed spot in the Greater Boston League playoffs, it does boost the Crimson's image...
Harvard faces a must-win situation Saturday if it is to extend its season and force a playoff with the University of Pennsylvania for the Ivy title. The winner of that Harvard-Penn game would then advance to the NCAA tournament...
...Crimson will quickly turn its attention towards a game that has rapidly become the squad's most important in recent history. When Harvard meets Yale Saturday in its regular season finale, the Crimson will face a must-win situation if it is to force a playoff with Penn for the Ivy title...