Word: tournaments
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...field, the English national team played bravely and well against Holland before being eliminated, by a score of 3-1, from the European Championship soccer tournament in West Germany last week. Outside Dusseldorf's Rheinstadion, however, England suffered a shameful defeat -- at the fists and feet of its own unruly fans. After a weeklong rampage through four West German cities, about 250 English hooligans -- some wearing T shirts reading INVASION OF GERMANY 1988, others with their faces painted in Union Jack colors -- had been detained for drunkenness, looting and fighting. One Irish fan died, drowning in Frankfurt's Main River...
British and West German officials began exchanging information on the most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...
...members of the Harvard lacrosse team, Tri-Captain Bill Pennoyer and freshman Mickey Cavuoti, earned All-America honorable mention honors this month after leading the Crimson to the NCAA Tournament...
Harvard's season ended when the squad fell to Navy, 10-9, in a first-round game of the NCAA Tournament at Ohiri Field. The Crimson earned its only other bid to the tourney in 1980, when it fell in a quarterfinal game to John Hopkins...
...lights may have another shot at the Princeton eight when both squads head off to the prestigious Henley Regatta on the Thames River in England July 9 and 10. In the single-elimination tournament the Crimson will compete against hundreds of college, national and club crews from the United States and Europe...