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60-568: The team was founded in 1922, and held its first practice on September 26. Every Evening reported, "Seventh Ward "Chicks" he'd a good practice last evening at which 40 candidates were present. The Chicks are prepared for the first battle when the Wilmington Football Association season opens. Manager Ferguson has a bright outlook for the Chicks this season. All uniforms have been ordered and will be ready on Thursday evening at which time

120-550: A 21-week regular season. In most seasons, (from 2014 to 2017 and prior to 2007), each team has two bye weeks during the 20 week 18-game regular season. When the league had only 8 teams, the league usually had no bye weeks. However between 2007 and 2013, the league had one bye per team over in two weeks in August (4 teams would have a bye during week 6 and the other 4 teams would have a bye on week 7). In Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), each team has three byes each season. With

180-520: A bye week the next season through 2020 . Since 2021 , the season is 18 weeks long with a bye week and an additional 17th game. Between 1999 and 2001 , the NFL had an odd number of teams (31) as a result of the Cleveland Browns re-entering the league . Each week during these three seasons featured at least one team with its bye week, but the 2001 season also added an additional impromptu league-wide bye

240-406: A good defensive game for the "Chicks"; Buckley's run for 80 yards after catching a forward featured. Ferguson and Casey did most of the gaining for Seventh Ward." Following the loss the Chicks acquired several new players and "expect[ed] to turn in a win over Parkside". Seventh Ward lost the game by forfeit, putting them last in league standings. The Evening Journal reported, "Officials In charge of

300-413: A mixture of line plunges by Gillespie, Filliben and Quinn soon had the bail on the 3-yard line. Fllliben went over for the first touchdown of the 1922 season. Gillespie kicked the goal, the placement kick being used. Gillespie and Walsh featured for Defiance, both getting away with several excellent runs. Walsh also ran the team in an excellent manner. Jestwick and Hagan also played a clever game. Ross played

360-455: A power of two can have a standard bracket in which all teams are paired up with the loser of each match eliminated and the winner moving on to the next round until only one champion remains. However, if the number of teams is not a power of two, a simple elimination tournament would eventually produce a round with an odd number of teams (if the number is not odd to start with). For example, a tournament of nine teams could only have four matches in

420-536: A practice and stilt scrimmage will be held. All candidates are requested to report at the club room, 1705 Lincoln street, at 6.30 o'clock on Thursday evening." The team joined the Wilmington Football Association at their founding, and were one of four charter members. Other league teams included the Defiance Bulldogs , St. Mary's Cats , and Parskide . The Chicks played their first game against

480-472: A single touchdown draw, 6-6, in Saturday's Wilmington Football Association game at Fourth and Church streets. Both teams fought hard for the victory and provided the large crowd of fans with a better brand of football than they exhibited in their previous games. The Cast climbed to a lead in the opening period, when they rushed over for a touchdown, but missed the try for the extra point. This looked like it might be

540-503: A team having a "bye week" or a "second bye" if that team is playing an especially poor team, and is all but assured of a win. Ever since the NFL started Thursday Night Football, teams who play on a Thursday night are sometimes referred to having a "mini bye" until their next game, usually being about 10 - 11 days away. Traditionally, the CFL has had nine teams and required bye weeks. Beginning 2018, each team has three bye weeks and 18 games over

600-475: A team which has a bye is awarded a win. In the Provincial Championships of Gaelic football , some teams receive a bye due to the irregular number of teams competing in each province. The different numbers resulted in different byes alignments in each Provincial Championship. For example, below is an assessment of the 2012 Provincial Championships, and their use of the "bye". Seven teams contested

660-432: A weakened side. On the competition ladder, teams are typically awarded two points (equivalent to a win) during their bye week. The Australian Football League , which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season , as well as a bye the week before the finals . In 1915 , 1919 to 1924 , 1942 and 1943 , 1991 to 1994 and 2011 , when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club

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720-498: Is an odd number of teams, but may also be used with an even number of teams, for example to provide rest breaks, as has been done in the National Football League (NFL). In a standard single-elimination tournament , each round has half the number of teams of the preceding round. Thus the finals will have two, the semi-finals will have four, the quarter-finals will have eight, etc. Thus tournaments with competitors numbering

780-499: Is available at the bottom of DelawareOnline.com. In addition, The News Journal publishes a dedicated not-for-profit customized publication, GET INVOLVED , which is distributed in the paper every other month. Bye week In sports, a bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments , byes may be assigned either to reward

840-570: Is owned by Gannett . The ancestry of the News Journal reflects the mergers of several newspapers. It is dated to Oct. 1, 1866 when Howard M. Jenkins and Wilmer Atkinson started the afternoon publication Daily Commercial . In 1877, that paper was absorbed into a rival, the Every Evening , founded by Georgetown native William T. Croasdale. The Evening Journal , later owned by the Du Pont family,

900-463: Is placed on the team's schedule, usually falling between Week 4 and Week 12 inclusive. During the 1960 and 1966 seasons, the league had an odd number of teams due to expansion. Each week during those seasons, one team had a bye, including one team each in the first and last week of the season: thus, because they had to play all their games with no break in the middle, those two teams effectively had no byes. The American Football League (which at

960-429: The 2012 Connacht Senior Football Championship , so a quarter-final was not played by Mayo . Mayo therefore advanced directly to the semi-final to await the winner of the game between Leitrim and London . Eleven teams contested the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship , so five teams were given first round byes. Three teams ( Carlow , Dublin and Wexford ) played winners of the three preliminary matches, while

1020-706: The CAA and Sun Belt in 2023, as well as the American in 2024, as each expanded beyond 12 teams. Various other conferences like the OVC offer "double byes" to the semifinals for their top two teams, while the WCC offers "triple byes" to their top two teams. While not yet confirmed, the ACC are likely to adopt "triple byes" starting in 2025, as membership for the conference will expand beyond 16 teams. In Esports , "double byes" are most commonly seen during

1080-607: The Delaware General Assembly and the Delaware beaches . The paper also offers limited coverage of northeast Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania , mostly by means of short news briefs. The paper publishes national and international articles from wire services . The News Journal Media Group entered the Internet age in the late 1990s with the launch of Delaware Online , a website with an online edition of all local content in

1140-611: The ESL Pro League event for the Counter-Strike series of games, awarded to the teams who won each of the groups during the group stage. "Triple byes" are currently used for China 's professional League of Legends league, known as the LPL , and are awarded to the top two teams during a split's regular season. Up until 2020, they were also used for South Korea 's LCK , with the top team in their split's regular season automatically making

1200-541: The 8-yard line, where it was brought by Seventh Ward, due to a forward pass." The Chicks lost their final game against the Defiance Bulldogs, 0–78 in what was called a "local football record". The Chicks folded following the season. The News Journal The News Journal is a daily newspaper in Wilmington, Delaware . It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware , near New Castle, and

1260-558: The Defiance Bulldogs, and were shutout 0–13. A game recap by The Morning News wrote, "Despite the midsummer temperature Saturday afternoon, Defiance and Seventh Ward battled in top form in the opening encounter of the Wilmington Football Association at Rockford Tower the Bulldogs defeating the Ferguson, combine, 13 to 0. More than a thousand lovers of the strenuous fan sport turned out to see the game. The bulldogs sent their first touchdown over in

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1320-601: The Final as a result. In certain tournaments, the byes are somewhat disguised. When more teams are given first-round byes than actually compete in the first round, these first games may be referred to as "play-in" games and might not be a formally labelled as a tournament round. From 2012 to 2019 and 2021, the Major League Baseball playoffs has included ten teams consisting of six division winners and four wild card teams (the top-ranked non-division-winners). The first round of

1380-623: The Needy Family Fund, which partners with local charities to assist family in need of food and clothing. Each Christmas season, The News Journal asks readers to donate to the fund, and publishes a list of those who do. The News Journal Media Group has partnered with nearly half of the registered not-for-profit companies (registered 501(c)(3) ) in New Castle County. A customized link – offering all types of correspondence from not-for-profits, church leaders and community affairs personnel –

1440-831: The News Journal took over the six weekly newspapers owned by Gatehouse Media in a merger whereby Gatehouse bought Gannett and renamed itself Gannett. The content of the six weeklies and websites (which redirect to the News Journal’s Delaware Online) now consists mainly of material generated by the News Journal and USA Today. The weeklies’ Facebook pages are outdated, unstaffed and rarely updated if at all since 2020. The Dover Post, Milford Beacon, Sussex Countian/Living, Middletown Transcript, Smyrna-Clayton Sun Times and Hockessin Community News no longer exist as independent voices. The News Journal covers New Castle County most in-depth, but also offers considerable coverage of

1500-578: The Parkside-Seventh Ward game, scheduled for Rockford Tower, awarded the contest to Parkside, 1 to 0, on account of the non-appearance of Seventh Ward, in accordance with rule 18 of the Association. Manager Evans of the Kirkwood Park aggregation said he stood for the ruling of the officials in his report of the affair to the president of the Association on Saturday night. Referee Doherty in charge of

1560-532: The Seventh Warders claim they received a call from someone stating he was William Lewis, president of the Parkside club and that Manager Evans wished to call the game on account of rain. Manager Ferguson consulted his players and agreed to postpone the game. Parkside, however, was on the field waiting for Seventh Ward, and the game was forfeited to the east siders by the officials." The team's next scheduled opponent

1620-483: The atmosphere the past few day has put snap in the practices of the elevens in preparation for the game and has also snapped up the Interest of the fans. The Cats and Chicks should provide one of those old time struggles of the gridiron with both battling for the points which will lift them out of the cellar station." The Chicks tied the game, 6–6. A recap by The Evening Journal wrote, "Seventh Ward and St. Mary battled to

1680-513: The competition expanding to an odd number of teams from the 2023 NRL season , one club is required to have a bye each round. During the representative period of the season (such as the State of Origin ), multiple byes are scheduled to the clubs that are expected to have the most players involved in the representative match, in the round preceding the representative fixture, to allow those clubs to sufficiently rest those players and prevent them from fielding

1740-442: The division finals as four other teams compete in a semi-final week. In other tournaments where teams are unranked, random draw may be used to determine the byes. The number of teams offered a bye is generally designed to ensure that the next round consists of a power-of-two number of teams so the tournament can proceed as a simple single-elimination tournament from that round onward. If the byes are all single first-round byes into

1800-452: The division winners. The FA Cup also has certain teams compete in up to 6 preliminary rounds to qualify for the first round "proper". Another example is the NCAA basketball tournament , which since 2011 has had 68 teams, effectively granting 60 byes, while eight teams compete in the "First Four" games for remaining four spots in the round of 64. From 2011 to 2015, the "First Four" was considered

1860-410: The final "Super Six". In each of these nine sextets, each team competes during four of six "rotations" with the other two as byes – scheduled before the uneven bars and the floor exercise. For example, Semifinal II of the 2018 championships operated as follows In a Swiss-system tournament with an odd number of players, one player gets a bye in each round, but not all players will get

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1920-433: The first quarter. Walsh took Fegley's kick-o : on the 30-yard line and brought the pigskin back 25 yards before being downed. Steady backfield plunges and end runs brought the ball to the 20-yard line where Quinn fumbled the Seventh Warders taking possession of the ball. The Bulldogs defenset proved impregnable, forcing Fegley to kick, Gillespie taking his part on the 0-yard line. Walsh went around left end for 15 yards while

1980-425: The first round, while a simple tournament of ten teams would produce a second round with five teams, meaning only two matches could occur. Thus, if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32), to make a working bracket byes are provided to automatically move certain participants into a later round without requiring them to compete in an earlier one. When participants are ranked, participants with

2040-405: The first round; the round of 64, played on Thursday and Friday, was called the "second round"; the round of 32 was then called the "third round", consisting of games played on Saturday and Sunday. In 2016, the naming reverted to the round of 64 being the "first round" once again, and the round of 32 being the "second round", though the play-in round and all eight of those teams are officially part of

2100-507: The first touchdown. At the beginning of the second quarter terrific line plunges by McCulllon, Loose and Volkman scored another for the Black and White. Seventh Ward introduced a colored player into Wilmington football circles. Perry by name, and from advanced reports he was heralded as another West, but he failed to show anything startling, although he did take the ball over for the West Side team from

2160-558: The game reported that he had conferred with the other officials, Umpire Prettyman and Linesman Whitehead, and it was their unanimous opinion that the game be forfeited to Parkside in accordance with the rules of the Association. On the other hand it Is reported a phone call at the Seventh Ward Club Saturday afternoon prevented the Seventh Ward team from taking the field at Rockford Tower in the scheduled game. Shortly before 2.30

2220-437: The highest ranked participant(s), or randomly, to make a working bracket if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32). In round-robin tournaments , usually one competitor gets a bye in each round when there are an odd number of competitors, as it is impossible for all competitors to play in the same round. However, over the whole tournament, each plays the same number of games as well as sitting out for

2280-451: The highest ranking going into the tournament are given a bye to the second round, as it is generally seen as an advantage to be assured entry into a later round. In the NFL playoffs , for example, as of 2020 , the division-leader with the best record in each conference is given a bye to the second round. The Canadian Football League (CFL) also grants a bye to its two division winners, directly to

2340-406: The ladder. This is different from a double elimination format, in which a team has to lose both in the tournament and the repechage to be eliminated. The A-League Men also had bye rounds in the 2019-20 season and the 2024-25 season due to an odd amount of teams being in the competition after expanding the amount of teams in the league. The top two placed regular season teams earn a bye into

2400-422: The league's top two seeds, while the next two seeds got first-round byes for their playoffs . In NCAA Division I basketball, the 2009 Big East men's basketball tournament introduced "double byes", as the conference invited all 16 members to participate for the first time (previously only the top twelve were invited). To limit the number of games each round to four, the four highest seeded teams were advanced to

2460-512: The margin of advantage for the Chicks when the evened the count on a brilliantly executed forward, but the Forty Acreites also failed in the attempt for the extra point. Fumbles ruined two apparent chances for the Saints to score in the second and third quarters." They spent the following weeks on bye , before losing 6–18 against Parkside in early-November. The Morning News reported, "Seventh Ward

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2520-410: The other two played each other in the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. Six teams contested the 2012 Munster Senior Football Championship , so two teams ( Clare and Cork ) were permitted to advance to the semi-finals without playing a game in the quarter-finals. Nine teams contested the 2012 Ulster Senior Football Championship , so only Cavan and Donegal played in

2580-413: The paper, as well as job listings and classified ads. The paper began offering an online news update weekdays at 4:30 pm. The once-daily update has evolved into as-it-happens online news coverage that often results in a couple dozen news updates per day. DelawareOnline.com was the first newspaper in the country to offer a morning and afternoon online newscast, with anchor Patty Petite. DelawareOnline.com

2640-468: The playoffs consists two wild-card games : single-game matches in which the four wild-card teams are reduced to two. The winners move on to the Divisional series with the six division winners for an eight-team, three-round tournament. Although this is billed as adding two extra "one-game showdowns" to the post-season, it could also be viewed as adding a fourth round to the ten-team tournament with six byes for

2700-399: The preliminary round, while the other seven advanced via bye to the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. While less common, byes can be offered for multiple rounds (e.g. a "double bye" directly into the third round), or starting in a later round (e.g. the top-ranked team in the first round is given a bye straight to the third round). A bye granted in a later round of

2760-497: The same number of rounds. The "Berger Tables" used by FIDE for chess tournaments, provide pairings for even numbered pools and simply state that "Where there is an odd number of players, the highest number counts as a bye." Similar to the round-robin context, in league sports with weekly regular-season play such as gridiron football or rugby , a team not scheduled to play on a given week or fixture (competition period) can be said to be on its "bye week". Byes are necessary if there

2820-528: The school year, the paper publishes an informational feature for school children, in the form of colorful, pull-out, double-truck page in the Life section. In 2006, The News Journal provided Glasgow High School a $ 10,000 grant to help the school's newspaper, The Dragon Fire . The News Journal also sent editors to Glasgow to help the Dragon Fire with page layout and web design. The News Journal Company also runs

2880-528: The second round of a tournament, the number of byes required is the difference between the number of teams and the next-highest power of two. For example, a 12-team tournament will require four byes (16−12) to ensure that instead of six teams in the second round, eight advance (as the four byes avoid two of the four teams being eliminated). In postseason tournaments sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association ,

2940-486: The semi finals of the A League Finals . In a variation of the round-robin case, at certain high-level competitions in artistic gymnastics , teams cycle through the apparatuses in an "Olympic Order" with scheduled byes in between. As an example, the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships has 36 teams with six teams apiece at six regional sites, with 12 advancing to two semifinal rounds of six that decide participants for

3000-660: The third round of competition, the 5th-8th seeded teams given byes to the second round, and the bottom eight competed the first day. Due to the realignment of major conferences , "double byes" were no longer needed by the Big East after 2013, but were added by the Southeastern Conference in 2013 , the Atlantic Coast and Atlantic 10 conferences in 2014, the Big Ten in 2015 , and after another round of conference realignment ,

3060-653: The time was a completely separate league, but later became the American Football Conference ) also had an odd number of teams in 1966 and 1967 following the addition of the Miami Dolphins , leaving each team with two bye weeks. The NFL returned to the use of the bye week in 1990 so as to extend the 16-game regular season schedule to span 17 weeks to increase the number of viewable games for television contracts. The 1993 season spanned 18 weeks with each team having 2 bye weeks; it went back to 17 weeks with

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3120-643: The tournament eliminates the need for two byes in the previous round. In the English FA Cup , the football clubs in the top two league divisions receive two-round byes and enter in the third round "proper" (of eight); the two next-highest divisions' teams will have entered in the first round. Another example is the UEFA Europa League , where teams from the highest-ranked nations enter the group stage directly without having to go through qualification. The WNBA , from 2016 to 2021, had granted double byes to

3180-408: The tournament. Certain professional rugby and gridiron football leagues use the term "bye week" for any week during the regular season in which a team does not play a game. (School teams may also have non-competing weeks, but these are scheduled by individual schools/conferences and more commonly termed "open dates" or "idle weeks".) Each NFL team has one "bye week" during a normal season; this

3240-581: The weekend after the September 11 attacks . The league returned to having an even number of teams (32) in 2002 with the addition of the Houston Texans , and implemented the current bye week system. In the rare case of a game postponement that cannot be made up within the same week, the NFL may revise bye weeks assignments in order to reschedule the delayed game, making the postponement week those teams' new "bye week": The media may also sarcastically refer to

3300-525: Was cited in a 2008 Wilkerson and Associates study as the site Delawareans visit first for news and entertainment. More than one million unique visitors are recorded each month. As of July 2020, the Delaware Online Facebook page had more than 200,000 followers. The News Journal participates in the Newspapers for Education program, which provides free newspapers for area schools. On Fridays during

3360-874: Was consolidated in 1919 when feuding factions of the family reconciled, forming the News Journal Company. DuPont decided to sell The News Journal Company in 1978. Gannett won the bidding war, beating the Hearst Corporation and The Washington Post Company . Gannett paid $ 60 million for the two Delaware papers and merged them in 1989 to form one paper, The News Journal . In 2010, The News Journal Company became The News Journal Media Group in an effort to collectively identify their extensive product portfolio of print, digital, video and new media. 2019 circulation statements showed The News Journal daily circulation at 26,550 (Issue Date: August 21, 2019) and Sunday circulation at 39,375 (Issue Date: August 25, 2019). In 2020,

3420-539: Was easy for Parkside on Saturday in an Association League game, the East Side eleven winning easily 18 to 6. Parkside made seven first downs after receiving the kick-off at the opening of the game, only to loss the ball with half a yard to go for another first down on the 10-yard line. But the East Siders were not to be denied a score, for Loose intercepted a forward pass, and with almost perfect interference ran forty yards for

3480-675: Was founded in 1888 as a competitor to the Every Evening. The two papers merged in 1933. Another predecessor to the News Journal was the Morning Herald , founded in 1876 by Philadelphia lawyer John O'Byrne. It later became the Daily Morning News, bought by Alfred I. Du Pont in 1911. For most of the 20th century, the Du Pont family owned these two Delaware newspapers, The Morning News and The Evening Journal . Ownership of both papers

3540-549: Was given two byes. In both leagues, and under many other professional and amateur sports leagues in Australia, higher placed teams do not earn byes during finals , but instead the opportunity not to be eliminated by losing their first-round match (also called a double chance). This practice is common in Australia, but it is not used in most other countries, to earn an easier passage to the Grand Final as reward for finishing higher on

3600-501: Was the St. Mary's Cats, at Fourth & Church streets. A game preview by The Evening Journal wrote, "Seventh Ward and St. Mary hook up In the lone battle booked for tomorrow in the Wilmington Football Association at Fourth and Church streets. It will be the opening home game of the grid season for the Cats and a large crowd is expected to greet the popular east siders on their field. The brisking up of

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