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Changes in the Harvard schedule could also discourage the Crimson's playoff hopes. For the first time, the squad is part of the Greater Boston circuit, meaning it will take on powers like B.U. and B.C., and Tufts, MIT and Brandeis. National power U.Conn. has been dropped from the slate, along with Williams and Amherst. But the scheduling people more than made up for that by pitting the Crimson against tournament-bound Hartwick, and U.R.I. and UMass...
...Harvard match-up is potentially interesting, as the Terriers nosed out the Crimson for the eighth and final regional playoff spot last year. Still, an air of optimism pervaded the Harvard camp last week. "I think we're going to go after it," Ford said, "and barring injuries we should be right up there...
...crime would be compounded under this format if the same club won both halves of the pennant. It would still have to win a best-of-five playoff with the team sporting the second best record over the full season. And by using overall records to determine the other playoff team, baseball left itself open to all sorts of shenanigans. Say the A's and Kansas City Royals are fighting for first place in September, with the Chicago White Sox close on their heels. If the White Sox contrived to lose their final series against Oakland...
With the threat of another Black Sox scandal looming, Commissioner Kuhn broke his strikelong silence to assure fans that he would "preserve the integrity of the game." The playoff plan was altered so that if a club won both halves, the second playoff spot would go to the team with the second best record during the second season. Thus each team would have to win games, not lose them, against every opponent. Cincinnati Reds President Dick Wagner called the solution a "whitewash," an understandable complaint since Kuhn had effectively nullified 35 Reds' victories in the first half. Equally outraged...
There was a sense of déjà vu at the Oakland Hills Country Club outside Detroit. Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper, tied after four rounds, needed an 18-hole playoff to determine the victor. No, it was not a rerun of the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco when Palmer blew a seven-stroke lead, then lost in a playoff to Casper. This was golf's newest big championship, the U.S. Senior Open, for competitors over 50. Palmer, 51, produced one of his famous charges in the playoff, coming from behind to beat Casper and Bob Stone...