Word: round-robin
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...largest, if not indisputably the greatest, sporting event in the world. Two years ago 104 national teams, with the best talent each home country could assemble and train, be gan to play elimination rounds all over the globe. This month the 14 survivors and the West German team, the defending champions, moved to Argentina to join the host country in an exhausting series of round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star...
Because of the complexities of the round-robin play, the Dutch needed a tie with Italy to get a chance at the title. Italy needed a win to go on to the final. The game mucked about inconclusively until, after 18 minutes, a tall and gawky defender named Erny Brandts tried to thwart an attack by lashing savagely at the ball in front of his own goal. He knocked it into the netting and in the bargain crippled his teammate, Goalie Pieter Schrijvers, who was carried off on a stretcher. The score was now Italy: one goal up, and Holland...
...nature of the round-robin tournament often made it sensible for a team to play for a tie against any opponent that seemed dangerous, and to play for a win -thus committing defensive forces and risking a loss-only against the worst teams. In the typical game, each team fortified its own goal so thoroughly that only thinly manned patrols could be sent forward, and their efforts seemed more reconnaissance than aggression. If the opposing defense dozed off in a body, a goal might be scored, since the individual attackers were superbly skilled, but the likely game result...
...MacKenzie Field here last evening, and indeed the Harvards had. When the dust--or mud, rather--had settled from last night's ballgame versus St. John's, the Crimson had lost its second shutout game in as many days, to drop out of the NCAA's Northeast Regional round-robin playoff tournament...
Felske commented that the Seven Sisters Tournament may be replaced by an Ivy League round-robin for next year. "We really need to take this step," Felske said. "Right now there is not really an Ivy League championship since Princeton and Yale do not attend the Seven Sisters," he added...