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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Rose Bowl is to college football the annual playoff between the leaders of the Eastern and Western Divisions of the National Football League is to the professional game. In Chicago last week, in a tussle that had no influence on the final standing, the Chicago Bears nosed out the Detroit Lions, 10-to-7. for their 13th successive victory. In Philadelphia the New York Giants, who had qualified for the play-off three days earlier, concluded their schedule by losing to the Philadelphia Eagles, 6-to-0. When the Giants and the Bears meet in Manhattan's Polo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football: Professionals | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

According to persistent rumors from New London there is a strong possibility that the baseball team will stage a third game with Yale at New London on the day of the boat race this spring. This will mean a revival of the custom of having a playoff despite the fact that it was abandoned as financially impractical a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO PLAY OUT ELI BASEBALL SERIES ON DAY OF RACES | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

...belief that the game would be played in the morning of the day on which the race is to take place. It is believed that this third game will be held whether or not the results of the first two encounters leave a tie and thus necessitate a playoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO PLAY OUT ELI BASEBALL SERIES ON DAY OF RACES | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

...third game if the two scheduled diamond encounters left the Crimson and Blue in a tie for their traditional championship, but due largely to the financial loss incurred by holding the game after the closing of College, the H.A.A., and the Yale Athletic Association agreed to abandon the playoff. Consequently all prospects of a third game were scratched off the books for the 1934 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO PLAY OUT ELI BASEBALL SERIES ON DAY OF RACES | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

...December 11, M.I.T.; Tuesday, December 18, Boston University; Friday, December 21, McGill at Montreal; Wednesday, January 9, McGill; Saturday, January 12, Princeton; Tuesday, January 15, Olympic Club; Saturday, February 9, Dartmouth at Hanover; Tuesday, February 12, Brown at Providence; Saturday, February 16, Princeton at Princeton; Monday, February 18, Princeton playoff; Friday, February 22, Dartmouth; Wednesday, February 27, Dartmouth playoff; Saturday, March 2, Yale; Saturday, March 9, Yale; at New Haven; Wednesday, March 13, Yale playoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORTY THREE MEN OUT FOR VARSITY HOCKEY PRACTICE | 11/27/1934 | See Source »

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