Some tournaments ( historically College Bowl ) have used single-elimination or double-elimination, but this reduces the number of matches each team can play, and has been criticized on the college-circuit.

In a sporting event a strong team may be matched up against a historically weaker team ; almost every game will have a favorite and an underdog.

Morgan was the first ( and until the turn of the 20th to 21st century, the only ) historically black university to field a lacrosse team.

Bayern is historically the most successful team in German football, as they have won the most championships and the most cups.

Faith in the English national team was at an all time low, and Wolves faced a Honvéd team that included Ferenc Puskás and many other members of the " Magical Magyars ", 1954 World Cup finalists and one of the historically great sides that had recently humbled England twice.

Thursday was historically half-day closing in Abergavenny ( when shops and businesses closed early ) thus permitting the team, composed of apprentices, shops boys and local workers to leave work and attend games or training.

The Canadiens have historically been the NHL's most successful hockey team.

Many clubs have been founded in MR, these include: An Art club ( with five divisions for: Visual art, music, dancing, literature and films ), Herranótt acting guild ( the oldest theatric club in northern Europe ), Computer academy and a Nerd club ( which merged and became known as The Academy ), Traveller's club, Sport's club, Riding club, Science club, Novelist club, Chess club and the Rowing club ( which was historically a club for rowing, but is now a male-cheerleading team ).

It is a sports club emotionally and historically related to the university life, so through generations, many students, even those born in farther regions, became lifelong supporters of the team.

Adventure racing historically required teams to be of a specified size and to include both men and women, but many races no longer restrict team size and include single-sex divisions.

The Waratahs has historically been the name for the New South Wales Rugby Union ( NSWRU ) representative team, and became the name for the New South Wales team when it entered the Super Six, Super 10 and Super 12 competitions.

The New South Wales rugby union team have historically been known as the Waratahs, the flower, the Waratah, being the state flower of New South Wales.

The team, selected by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation, historically comprised only players from the National Superior Basketball league, but in the 1990s began to include Puerto Rican players playing abroad professionally.

Vaduz have historically had many players from Liechtenstein, many of whom played for the Liechtenstein national team, but nearly all these players have moved abroad, and now the majority of the first team squad are foreign players from different areas of the world.

Argentine players who opt to go overseas to play professionally ( historically in Italy and France, with an increasing number today playing in England ) remain eligible for national team selection ( although this was not originally the case ), and the current national team is heavily, though not exclusively, made up of European-based players.

The rebuilding culminated in the 1995 – 96 UEFA Cup elimination of the historically most successful English football team, Liverpool, though AS Roma once again knocked Brøndby out.

Whether it is due to the personality of the coach or the nature of the scheme, the Martz variant has historically had problems when teams shut down the run and make the team one dimensional.

A 2009 study conducted by an international team of astrophysicists revealed that the outer ring of M94 is not a closed stellar ring, as historically attributed in the literature, but a complex structure of spiral arms when viewed in mid-IR and UV.

Panama historically reached the Fourth Round for the 2006 World Cup CONCACAF qualifications and also finished for the first time in team history as runners-up in the final championship game of the 2005 Gold Cup.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

This time the team used the expedition to raise awareness about the global environmental importance of the Antarctic region and to show that biofuel can be a viable and environmentally friendly option.

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Acceptance testing is a term used in agile software development methodologies, particularly Extreme Programming, referring to the functional testing of a user story by the software development team during the implementation phase.

In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.

The team will use the data obtained to create innovative computer simulations that can be used to model how sediment flows through these channels.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

However, Walsh used this as a motivating factor for his team, who felt they were disrespected.

Since many bowls look the same, coloured, adhesive stickers or labels are also used to mark the bowls of each team in bowls matches.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

This nickname was commonly used during that season, perhaps because the team had a new manager and several rookie players.

However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.

So after the firing, Paul Brown packed up all his equipment, which he then used for his new team in Cincinnati.

Wyche also first used the timeout periods as an opportunity to bring his entire team to the sideline to talk to all eleven players, plus substitutes, at one time.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

The tax proceeds would be used to finance the building of the Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex which would include Jacobs Field and Gund Arena for the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

Under the Borland name and a new management team headed by President and CEO Dale L. Fuller, a now-smaller and profitable Borland refocused on Delphi, and created a version of Delphi and C ++ Builder for Linux, both under the name Kylix.

The Soviet scientists had suggested this name be given to element 105 ( which was finally called dubnium ) and the German team wished to recognise both Bohr and the fact that the Dubna team had been the first to propose the cold fusion reaction.

The " Red Sox " name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the " Red Stockings ".

The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

* Calgary Buffaloes, former name of Calgary Centennials, a former junior ice hockey team in Calgary, Canada

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, provided he not use the city name in the team's branding.

Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).