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2. Football pools - Wikipedia

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   Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]

3. Dunkel System - Wikipedia

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   The Dunkel System, also known as the Dunkel College Football Index, [1] [2] is a college football rating system developed in 1929 by Richard C. "Dick" Dunkel, Sr. (1906–1975), to determine a national champion. [3] Dunkel rated college football teams from 1929 until his death in 1975. [4]

4. Sports rating system - Wikipedia

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   Some systems assume parity among all members of the league, such as each team being built from an equitable pool of players via a draft or free agency system as is done in many major league sports such as the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL. This is certainly not the case in collegiate leagues such as Division I-A football or men's and women's basketball.

5. Super Bowl Squares: How Much Are Your Numbers Worth? - AOL

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   Super Bowl Squares are the second most popular office sports betting tradition in the United States (No. 1: March Madness brackets), maybe because the outcome is based entirely on luck. Here's how ...

6. Determining the outcome of a match (association football)

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   Most codes of football from before 1863 provided only one means of scoring (typically called the "goal", although Harrow football used the word "base"). [7] The two major exceptions (the Eton field game and Sheffield rules, which borrowed the concept from Eton) both used the "rouge" (a touchdown, somewhat similar to a try in today's rugby) as a tie-breaker.

7. Len Martin - Wikipedia

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   Martin was well known for his intonation when reading the scores. It was clear from the way in which he presented the home or away team name, followed by number of goals, whether the result was a home win, an away win, a no-score draw or a score draw; this was important for the football pools results.

8. Swifties, here's your guide to football, explained by Travis ...

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   In terms of the origin of the position's name that has fans giggling under their breath, Jason Kelce explained that a tight end is historically a receiver who stays close to, or "tight" to, the ...

9. Parimutuel betting - Wikipedia

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   Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.