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1958 Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball)

basketball league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2022
Entity authorityQ108809665 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1958 Icelandic Basketball Tournament was the 7th season of the top tier men's basketball league in Iceland. The season started on 21 February 1958 and ended on 27 March 1958. ÍKF won its fourth title by posting the best record in the league.

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The participating teams played each other once for a total of 5 games. The top team won the national championship.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1958 Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball)” is basketball league season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Úrvalsdeild, karla and basketball, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Úrvalsdeild, karla and basketball is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1958 Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.