Word: post-season
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...football season flared up and sputtered out for good last week on 1938's first day when 14 teams met in well-ballyhooed post-season games. Six were Bowl games, a unique U. S. institution founded for the purpose of publicizing southern winter resorts. The seventh was a game for charity, between picked players from Eastern and Western colleges.* played at San Francisco for the 13th year for the benefit of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children...
...basketball purposes, is divided into two conferences: Southern, which includes colleges in most of the Atlantic Coast States, and Southeastern, which includes colleges in the deep South and the Mississippi Valley. In each the championship is decided, not by the round-robin of scheduled games, but in a post-season tournament among the Conference leaders. Last week Washington & Lee beat North Carolina 29-to-19, a game that was important since both are sure to be in the Southern Conference tournament at Durham, N. C. March 5-7. Southeastern Conference's major game of the week was Tennessee...
...Committee is opposed to post-season football games of all descriptions, including so-called 'bowl games,' feeling they have no part in the athletic programs of the colleges. We believe this to be so because such games serve no sound educational ends and such promotions merely trade upon intercollegiate football for commercial purposes...
...annual meetings of the N. C. A. A., the College Physical Education Association and the American Football Coaches Association, held simultaneously in Manhattan. Meanwhile, an aggregate crowd of 219,000 watched 14 teams tardily conclude the football season of 1936 on the first day of 1937 in seven post-season games, from San Francisco to Havana...
Regulations to be drawn up by the League would standardize such things as pre-season practices, eligibility of players, post-season game rules, scouting agreements, etc. The college newspapers as a result of a careful cooperative investigation reached the conclusion that rules drawn up by these colleges would have the effect of raising and standardizing athletic practices on a level that would revive and maintain amateurism in college football...