Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holy Cross football coach Rick Carter was too busy yesterday to come to the phone His 7-1 Crusaders, heading for a Division 1-AA playoff berth, were going to be on regional TV against Harvard, and the television people and photographers were following him around, finding out this and that and everything else as they readied for their broadcast...
...seemed so simple. A Lowell victory yesterday would have sent the bellboys into their first House football playoff game in seven years. But Kirkland put Lowell's dreams of a playoff birth aside at least for a week, pinning a disappointing 8-0 loss on this year's cinderella team...
Frustration is the foundation of sports in Boston. Sure, the Hub is treated to an occasional championship team, but the famous losses are what stand out most in local memories: the seventh games of the '67 and '75 World Series, the '78 Red Sox playoff, the Bruins' seventh-game overtime loss to Montreal...
...Brewers rapped playoff hero Bob Forsch for all their runs and 10 hits to find themselves in an extremely unfamiliar position--in the lead for an entire game...
...Anaheim, Calif. crowd of 64,406--a record attendance for a single AL playoff game--watched Angels' starting pitcher Tommy John hold the power-laden Milwaukee lineup to seven hits...