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Harvard, favored to win this weekend's tournament, leads a group of 10 teams split in two separate pools. The spikers will meet B.C., B.U., Williams and Bryant College on a round-robin basis. Of these teams, the Crimson has only played B.C., taking a scrimmage victory. But senior Captain Brad Martin expressed certainty that "they [B.C.] and the other squads are fairly weak teams...
Subject to final approval by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), four of the world's top 16 soccer teams will play a round-robin tournament at the Stadium. It will be the first time the University has ever been the scene of an Olympic event...
Harvard's most impressive performance of the vacation may well have been its sole loss on its annual western trip. In the four team round-robin Jeno tourney, the icemen smothered Northern Michigan, 7-0, on December 28, and Northern Arizons, 12-1, the next night (11 players contributed goals in the two games), before falling in Minnesots-at-Duluth, 3-2, in the championship game...
Harvard opens the action this morning with an 11:30 match vs. UMass, the Harvard Brown game is set for 6:15 tonight. The round-robin affair ends tomorrow afternoon...
...plot, afterall, called for morning-line favorites, Brazil and West Germany, to make the second round unscathed, having survived the grueling, two-week round-robin competition with stamina intact and muscle pulls at a minimum. The professionals who make up these national teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany...