[Ads-l] "split season" not in OED

[Joel Berson]

'Split season" -- the division of the game schedule for a sports league (a "season"; sense 9) into two parts, with a separate champion for each part.  Usually the two champions play each other for the final league championship.

Also applied to hunting  or fishing seasons divided into two or more parts.

A superficial Google Books search turns up (from snippets):

For sports -- perhaps 1924 (Association Men; Young Men); perhaps 1922 (Lanigan, Baseball Cyclopedia; no preview).
For hunting -- perhaps 1923--29 (Louisiana Conservation News), perhaps 1928 (Forest and Stream).
Joel

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