Word: outclassing
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...swimming team was subjected to humiliating defeat by the University of Pennsylvania, scoring only 9 points to 44. It is true that swimming is a minor sport, but it is certainly no credit to a great University to have any of its teams, no matter how unimportant, so completely outclass,--to which fact the fate of basketball bears abundant testimony. Such a defeat is particularly provoking when, as in this case, it is directly traceable to three simple causes:--men on probation, the two-period rule, and the lack of a swimming tank. The first two are common enough grievances...
Klapproth, an exuberant provincial, during a visit to Berlin desires to enjoy an adventure which in the telling will outclass the experiences of a rival sight-seer in his native town. He hits upon the idea of visiting a sanitarium for persons mentally unbalanced and promises to start a nephew of his in business if he will arrange for such an adventure. The nephew resolves upon the rash expedient of taking his uncle to the Pension Scholler, a private and eminently sane boarding house...
...himself and for himself, but as a member of an organized body in which, like a machine, the disarrangement of any one component part is fatal to the effectiveness of the whole. Other things being equal, this idea of unity present in one team will make that team completely outclass another in which it is absent...
...completeness and ease of the victory were surprising, but were clearly the result of superior playing. That Butterworth would outclass any Princeton fullback, there had been no question whatever; but it had been expected that Princeton's rush line would be strong and that her newly developed interference would be the means of making substantial gains. Both these expectations were disappointed. The Yale rushers found no great difficulty in breaking through their opponents' line whenever called upon to do so, while the Princeton backs were as a rule unable to gain at all by the aid of the interference...
Whether Hallowell or Wheeler plays left tackle, Murphy will outclass either one. He has the advantage of a year's experience, and is a "foxier" player. He will nevertheless have his hands full, for both Wheeler and Hallowell are quicker...