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That the day's work was of no fluke origin it might be noted that the next week the University of Pittsburgh sadly humiliated Old Penn, conquerors of Yale and of a host of other football aggregations of more than passing merit...
Other Big Ten games were less important. In the South, Georgia smashed Vanderbilt 3 to 0, smashed also Vanderbilt's All-American end, Bomar. On the Pacific coast, the champion Golden Whales of California State wallowed and spouted, swamped Washington State 20 to 7 without a fluke. Oregon was 40 to Whitman's 6. Southern California, strongest title-seeker, was 21 to Nevada...
...spite of a brilliant display of interference, line strength and offensive drive, it was to its remarkable vigilance in following the ball that Holy Cross owed its 28 to 0 victory over St. Johns on Saturday. Every score but one contained something of the element of a fluke, but was made possible by an alertness that overwhelmed the St. Johns team in the first half. The first score, a goal from placement, bounced around between the uprights and the bar of the goal posts, finally falling on the playing field, but it was allowed by the referee. The second...
...anything can make Harvard's defeat on Saturday less bitter, it is the realization that defeat was not due to chance or fluke, but to unquestioned superiority on the part of the victors. Dartmouth had a team which excelled in every department of the game--as clean and hard-fighting an eleven as has been seen in the Stadium for years. Coming to Cambridge practically unheralded it can take its place among the great teams of the last years, ranking with them in speed of offense and impregnability of defense. Dartmouth had the better team and Dartmouth deserved...
...track meet with Princeton on one day under any circumstances is a full quota for the Crimson. Today the two contests have added significance; the baseball team has to make up for its unexpected defeat at the hands of Amherst on Wednesday and prove that that was only a fluke; the track team has to make today's victory one of points...