Word: round-robin
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During Christmas vacation he was one of the leaders in the sending of two round-robin telegrams to President Roosevelt. These message urged all-out aid, and asked Roosevelt to do everything necessary to defeat the Axis powers...
This is the week that a well regarded Princeton basketball team, considered by some the dark-horse of the Eastern Intercollegiate League race, makes its long delayed start in the seven-team round-robin fight for 1941 championship honors...
...Medical Student Herb Miller (who had just hung up his cleats) to teach them some varsity tricks, got Choate, Roxbury and other nearby prep schools to play against them. Then Princeton organized a 150-lb. team. Rutgers, Penn, Lafayette, Villanova followed. The six formed a league,* arranged a round-robin schedule. The late Foster Sanford, onetime Yale footballer and later Rutgers coach, put up a handsome silver trophy-to go to the first college winning the league championship three times...
...balding man of 52, still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come on, pull yourself together," Hoppe won match after match. With his 16th straight win he clinched the title, but still he clicked on. When the play...
Although Yale annexed team honors for the second year in a row, Harvard's captain and free styler, Eric Cutler, became the individual scoring champion of the Eastern. Intercollegiate Swimming League as the fourth annual round-robin tournament ended Tuesday with Yale outscoring Harvard...