Word: lopsidedness
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There has been a great deal of talk lately about the dangerous side-effects of lopsided football victories, say 100-0. The local discussion was stimulated by Syracuse's 66 point barrage against lowly Holy Cross two weeks ago (one wonders where the writers were when the Boston Bruins were...
Who is hurt by a lopsided score? The defeated team? Close losses, like the Dartmouth loss or Yale's 29-29 tie, are harder on a team's morale than the knowledge that you were totally outplayed by a better team. Is the individual losing player hurt? We don't...
So who loses on the lopsided game? I guess the sports writers of the losing team do, because they have to somehow rationalize the destruction and someway paint a rosier promise for tomorrow. So let's advocate playing every minute to its fullest, and make the sportswriters work a little...
In other Ivy league clashes. Princeton and Harvard climbed out of the second division by topping the Ivy cellar dwellers. Princeton rolled to its second consecutive lopsided Ivy triumph. 49-21, over Brown, while Harvard nipped Penn 28-27.
Senior fullback Dough Blake caught two touchdown passes and ran for a third to roll up a 21-0 lead in the first 11 minutes. Sophomore quarterback Joe Flynn has now led the Tigers to three straight lopsided victories since he replaced Rod Plummer in midseason.